Reza Sepahvand; Zeynab Amiri; Mojtaba Farokhi; Yadolah Amiri
Volume 21, Issue 2 , September 2017, , Pages 47-68
Abstract
Although at some period of history some religious scholars believed religion
was the reason for backwardness of communities, divine religions are drivers for individual and social capital accumulation and improving economic, cultural and social community. Therefore, religion can be considered in two ...
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Although at some period of history some religious scholars believed religion
was the reason for backwardness of communities, divine religions are drivers for individual and social capital accumulation and improving economic, cultural and social community. Therefore, religion can be considered in two dimensions of individual religious capital and social religious capital, which can be resulted in development of society as a motivating factor.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the religious capital impact on organizational citizenship behavior. The population consisted of 270 employees of Social Security Organization in Isfahan. The sample size of 159were determined randomly and according to the Grjsy and Morgan. For data gathering religious capital and organizational citizenship questionnaire was used. Validity and reliability of questionnaire confirmed using content validity and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of respectively 82.0, 76/0. For testing hypotheses Structural equation modeling using Amos software was conducted. Results showed that the religious capital has significant impact on organizational citizenship behavior with path coefficient of 0.46. Subsidiary hypothesizes of religious capital factors (include rulings, beliefs and morality) impacts on corporate behavior were significant with path coefficient of 0/52, 0/39 and 0/47 respectively.
