ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

The purpose of the present paper is to explore the relationship between organizational social capital and its aspects with employees’ organizational commitment. The statistical population includes all employees working at Karaj Tarbiat Moallem University and a random sample was selected by using Levy and Lemehow’s (1990) formula. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire of organizational social capital and Allen and Mayer’s (1990) organizational commitment were used. To analyze the data, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and linear regression were applied. The research results indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational social capital and its dimensions (i.e. cognitive, relational, and structural) with organizational commitment. The results also confirmed that only relational organizational social capital can predict organizational commitment and that the two other dimensions (i.e. cognitive and structural) are not organizational commitment predictors.