Understanding the impact of organizational cronyism and nepotism on the organization's social capital; Explaining the mediating role of perceived organizational justice

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular

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1 Lorestan university assistant professor, Management faculty, Korramabad, Iran

2 MA student in management, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

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the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of organizational cronyism and nepotism on social capital with the mediating role of perceived organizational justice in government organizations of Lorestan province. This research is an applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of collecting data. The statistical population of the research was formed by the employees of the government organizations of Lorestan province, and considering the size of the limited and specific statistical population, the Cochran sample calculation formula was used and based on that, the sample size at the confidence level of 0.95 was determined to be 384 people and the members of the sample were selected by the available sampling method. The data collection tool in this research is a standard questionnaire, the validity of which was confirmed using the content validity method and the reliability of the Cronbach's alpha method. To investigate and test the research hypotheses, structural equation modeling approach and smart pls2 and spss software were used. The research results show that organizational cronyism and nepotism have a significant and negative effect on social capital. Also, the results show that perceived organizational justice plays a mediating role in the effect of organizational cronyism and nepotism on social capital. Therefore,as a general conclusion, it can be said that in government organizations, when cronyism along with nepotism prevails, social capital in the organization will weaken and decline through perceived organizational justice

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