Study the Relationship between Social Capital of Organization and Empowering Staff of Universities: A Case Study of Applied Science Centers of Kermanshah

A social capital concept is known as a device to understand social relationships which are infrastructures of effective social systems, and foundations of organizational advantages. The purpose of present study is to determine the relationships of social capital of organization and empowering staff of Applied Science in Kermanshah province. The study is a descriptive- correlation survey. The statistics population was all staff of Applied Science centers in Kermanshah which was 152. The instrument for collecting data was a close- answer questionnaire regarding to the topic and nature of the research. The questionnaire was a combination of standardized questionnaires including the empowering psychological questionnaire (Spearitzer and Vatan and Cameron) and the organizational social capital questionnaire based on Nahapiet and Goshal. Its reliability and validity have been estimated through Cronbach Alpha, content, and face validity. The index reliability of the total scale was 0.82. Data analysis of the study has been done by applying Spss software, Pearson correlation of inferential statistics, and the Freedman test. Results showed the correlation coefficient has been significant between structural aspect of organizational social capital and empowering staff (at 0.05 level, p=0), the correlation coefficient has been significant between relational aspect of organizational social capital and empowering staff at 0.05 level (p=0), totally the results demonstrated the correlation between organizational social capital and empoweringstaff (r= 0.451) have been positive and significant (at 0.05 level). Clearly, if the organizational social capital increases, empowering staff also raises. The organizational social capital was less than average and empowering staff of the mentioned organization was more than the average.