Presenting a Pattern of Social Capital Promotion in Iranian Governmental Organizations: Qualitative Research Based on Grounded Theory Analysis

Today, one of the important issues facing government agencies is social capital and its promotion in organizations. Accordingly, the purpose of this qualitative research is to design a model through which social capital of Iranian Public organizations could be promoted. According to the purpose of the research, the qualitative research approach and the method of grounded theory were used. The statistical population of the research is Iran's public administration directors and executives who have been interviewed with 27 government directors of Tehran province with theoretical saturation logic and snowball method. The method of data collection was interviewing and literature on social capital., In this way, through the method of analysis of documents, by studying the literature and theories on social capital, the categories and its contents are collected, Then, using grounded theory method, strategies for promoting social capital includes internal factors such as individual factors, structural factors, managerial factors, safety and trust factors, educational factors, cohesion factors, and external factors such as institutional and governmental factors, Informational factors, technological factors, cultural and ideological factors, social and family factors, and collaborative factors were identified.