Analyzing the moderating role of Organizational Virtue in the relationship between Social capital and Psychological Empowerment of physical education teachers

The purpose of this study was to Analyzing the moderating role of Organizational Virtue in the relationship between Social capital and Psychological Empowerment physical of education teachers. Methodology was descriptive and correlational and it applied Structural Equation Modeling. The statistical population of the study was all physical education teachers’ in Hamadan province that 287 people who were selected through random sampling. For collecting data, Spreader's Psychological Empowerment (1995), Cameron’s Organizational Virtuousness (2004), and social capital’s Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s (1998) questionnaires were used. Questionnaires Validity was confirmed by 15 sports management professors and their reliability coefficients were found through Cronbach's alpha to be 0/86, 0/91, and 0/94 respectively. The result showed that the moderating role of Organizational Virtue in the relationship between Social capital and Psychological Empowerment was confirmed. Also, social capital has a positive and significant effect on physical education teacher’s Psychological Empowerment. Organizational Virtue has a positive and significant effect on physical education teacher’s Psychological Empowerment. According to the results this research, Strengthen Organizational Virtuousness in individual level and organizational level will strengthen relationship between Social capital and Psychological Empowerment of physical education teachers.