Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate of the relationship between social capital and manpower’s burnout in teaching hospitals of Iran. This study was a cross sectional study conducted in the teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in the year 2011. The target population of the study was manpower in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. A total number of 320 manpower were selected as sample of the study. The data collection tools were two questionnaires that their validity and reliability had been measured in previous studies. After completing the questionnaire, using appropriate statistical software SPSS16 statistical analysis was performed based on the type of variables (T-tests, Pearson correlation and regression analysis). There was a significant relationship between social capital and female manpower’s burnout; and the level of inverse correlation between the two variables were moderate (r=-0.257). In general, all five dimensions of social capital in the study hospitals, had a significant inverse relationship with burnout (P<0/001). Regression analysis showed that the five dimensions of social capital explain 0.101% of burnout variance. The most important factor, which its influence is more than other factors, is the diversity of social interaction and friendships dimension. Key words: Social capital, manpower’s burnout, teaching hospitals.
Highlights
Based on Coleman’s definition, social capital is social and cultural cohesion within the community, norms and values that is governing the interaction of people and the institutions in which these values and norms should be placed
The purpose of this study was to evaluate of the relationship between social capital and manpower’s burnout in teaching hospitals of Iran
The present study examined the effect of social capital dimensions (5 components of trust, informal social relation, forgiveness and the spirit of volunteering, diversity in socializing and friendship, leadership and civic participation) on burnout of female nurses in the hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences to help reducing the fatigue and nurse staff problems and promotion of society and patients health
Summary
Based on Coleman’s definition, social capital is social and cultural cohesion within the community, norms and values that is governing the interaction of people and the institutions in which these values and norms should be placed. Social capital is the reason that many theories were developed that form the basis for other management studies (Coleman, 1988). This is a new capital, which plays a more important role than other physical and human capital in organizations and communities and nowadays in sociology and economics, and recently is widely used in management and organization, and refers to the relationship between the members of a network as a valuable resources; and by creating norms and mutual trust lead to achievement of the members’ goals (Flora, 1998; Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998). We can consider social capital as a result of the following phenomena in a social system: 1)
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