The Association between Social Capital and Learning Organization (A Case Study: Staff of Qom University of Medical Sciences)

In today’s changing world, in addition with establishing human capital, supporting social capital is one of other challenges in organizational behavior. Furthermore, social capital is a public characteristic, but it is resulted from individual efforts in making trust, relationships and cooperation. Without social capital, staff would not have willingness to share information and knowledge. This article investigated the social capital and the learning organization.

This was a descriptive-correlational study with practical and fundamental objectives. The study population included 120 staff of Qom University of Medical Sciences. The sample size was 92 subjects according to the Morgan’s table. They were randomly selected and their viewpoints concerning the social capital were collected. The views were analyzed through inferential statistics by SPSS software.

The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the social capital and learning organization in Qom University of Medical Sciences (P < 5%).

Since social capital influences on improving and promoting the learning organization, this type of capital in addition with other weaker aspects of social capital in administrations and departments of medical universities must be identified and strengthened.