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The Role of Social Capital in Empowering Human Resources: Analytical Research in Some Colleges of the University of Baghdad

Israa Najm Abdullah, Dr. Ali Hassoon Fendi

Volume: 12 Issue: 4 2022

Abstract:

The current research focuses on testing the role of social capital and the extent of its contribution to the effect to achieve the empowerment of human resources in the organization independently for a sample of the leaders of the University of Baghdad, as well as diagnosing the extent of the research sample’s interest in the research variables and its dimensions, as the indicative variable consists of social capital consisting of three dimensions ( The structural, relational, cognitive), and the responsive variable enable human resources from three dimensions (information sharing, knowledge possession, freedom and independence). ) An individual from the senior leaders in the colleges of the University of Baghdad, and the main research tool (the questionnaire) was distributed to them to survey opinions about the variables, where the research community was (91), distributed (91) questionnaires, and we received (84) valid questionnaires for statistical analysis. Data using statistical programs V24- Amos and statistical analysis program SPSS- V24, with the adoption of descriptive and inferential statistics methods represented by a number of statistical programs that were extracted Some of these programs (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, simple correlation coefficient, simple linear regression (Pearson), frequencies and percentages, (Komogorove-Simirnov test), coefficient (Alpha Cronbach), confirmatory factor analysis to extract the results. To the existence of a correlation and impact of creative leadership in social capital.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i04.018

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