Title: Social capital, job efforts and work life employee's quality

Authors: Aein Ghorbani Ghashghaeinejad; Seyed Mehdi Hosseini

Addresses: Department of Management, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkoh Branch, Firoozkoh, Iran ' Department of Management, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkoh Branch, Firoozkoh, Iran

Abstract: This study aims to investigate the influence of social capital on job efforts and employees' quality of work life. Statistical population was the employees of Iran's Agriculture Bank. Samples were gathered by cluster sampling approach. A sample of 168 employees was selected. A self-administrated questionnaire was distributed among respondents. A structural equation modelling (SEM) technique was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Results indicated that social capital has a positive and significant effect on work life quality, job effort, and consequently, job performance.

Keywords: social capital; work life balance; job effort; job performance; structural equation modelling; SEM; quality of working life; quality of life; banking industry; bank employees; employee performance.

DOI: 10.1504/EMJM.2016.081051

EuroMed Journal of Management, 2016 Vol.1 No.3, pp.265 - 277

Received: 30 Mar 2016
Accepted: 15 Apr 2016
Published online: 19 Dec 2016 *

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