The effect of organizational climate on informal workplace learning with the mediating role of teachers' psychological capital

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of organizational climate on informal learning of teachers in Fereydunshahr city through the mediation of psychological capital. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is one of the descriptive-survey researches. The statistical population of the present study consists of 686 teachers in Fereydunshahr city. For example, using Krejcie and Morgan table, the sample number was estimated to be 244 people. The research instrument consists of three standard questionnaires of informal learning of Hong et al. (2020) which has 18 questions, the atmosphere bar questionnaire of Johnson et al. (2007) which has 21 questions and the psychological capital questionnaire of Lutans et al. (2007) which has 24 questions. In the present study, two methods of face and content validity have been used and Cronbach's alpha of 0.88 has been used to evaluate the reliability. The collected data were analyzed based on structural equation path analysis with Smsrt PLS software and Sobel test. The results showed that the organizational climate had a positive and significant effect on informal learning in the workplace with the mediating role of psychological capital.