The Effect of Organizational Justice on Social Capital with Studying the Moderating Role of Meritocracy in Organization

The importance of social capital is to the extent that it is considered as the facilitator of all social activities. Hence, in many researches, it has been studied the factors causing it. Then,The present paper will investigate the effect of organizational justice on social capital with the mediating role of meritocracy in organization. This paper, from objective point of view and type of use is applied and descriptive, respectively. The Statistical Population of this paper includes 500 people working in Exploration Management at National Iranian Oil Company. The sample of 218 clerks based upon Morgan Sampling Table and Stratified Random Sampling method were selected. In this paper, we have used two standard questionnaires namely Social Capital Questionnaire, Organizational justice Questionnaire and meritocracy researcher made Questionnaire. The Questionnaires have been validated by the experts and elites of this field. Furthermore, Cronbach's alpha was employed to confirm the reliability of the study instruments. The results obtained by Structural Equation Modeling have revealed that organizational justice affects both social capital and meritocracy. Also, meritocracy has positive effects on social capital . Additionally, organizational justice directly (.39) and indirectly as a result of moderating role of job meritocracy (.50) impacts social capital.