Investigating the Role of Spiritual Capital on Organizational Resilience: Emphasizing the Mediation of Ethical Climate

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular

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1 Associate Professor, Management and Administrative, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Governmental and Tourism Management, Central Organization of Payame Noor University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Ph.D. Student of Organizational Behavior Management,, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

4 Ph.D. Student of Human Resource Management, Islamic Azad University of Qazvin, Qazvin, Iran

Abstract

Today, organizations are facing a lot of challenges, and in this regard, the resilience is the organization's ability to deal with change through a renewed business operation to prevent the dissolution of the organization. For this purpose, the present study attempted to investigate the role of gender variables, ethical climate, and spiritual capital in organizational resilience. This research is applied in terms of purpose, and the method is descriptive-survey and correlation. The statistical population of the study consisted of employees of Tehran Fire Department, and the sample includes 102 employees. The data collection tool is a standard questionnaire consisting of 66 questions. Also, to analyze the research data, structural equation modeling based on Smart-PLS software was used. Research findings indicate that spiritual capital has a positive and significant effect on organizational resilience, and this effect is moderated through the gender variable. In addition, spiritual capital has a direct and meaningful effect on the ethical climate, and as the ethical climate of the organization increases, organizational resilience will increase. In this way, the ethical climate can play an intermediary role in improving organizational viability through spiritual capital.

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Social Capital Management
Volume 6, Issue 1
April 2019
Pages 1-22

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