The role of social capital, organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in predicting organizational health

Organizational health is an important factor in the hospital effectiveness. Therefore, the study of factors related to organizational health with the aim of improving it means the success of the organization in the future. The aimed this study was investigate the role of social capital, organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in predicting organizational health from nurses' viewpoints. Material & Methods: This was a cross sectional study. The research population was included public sector nurses working in the hospitals of the Varamin city in 2017 year that based on Krejcie & Morgan table 200 nurses were selected by simple randomly sampling method. Data with using the questionnaires of social capital (Pajak, 2006), organizational justice (Niehoff & Moorman, 1993), organizational citizenship behavior (Smith & et al, 1983) and organizational health (Hoy & Feldman, 1987) that were given simultaneously to nurses were collected within a month and their reliabilities estimated by Cronbach's alpha was 0/84, 0/89, 0/77 & 0/86. Data were analyzed with SPSS-19 software and by Pearson correlation and multiple regression with enter model methods. The results showed social capital (r=0/296), organizational justice (r=0/507) and organizational citizenship behavior (r=0/214) have a positive and significant relationship with organizational health. Also the predicted variables significantly could predict 46/6 percent of variance of organizational health that the share of organizational justice was higher than other variables (p<0/01). The results indicated the importance of social capital, organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in predicting organizational health. Therefore, hospital administrators and managers can through observance of justice and fairness and enhancing the social capital and organizational citizenship behavior with workshop provide an enhancement of organizational health.