Recognition of the relationship between social capital and cultural intelligence among employees of Tehran Abfar Company
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the relationship between social capital and cultural intelligence among employees of Tehran Abfar Company. This research is descriptive-survey method. The statistical population includes all employees of Tehran's Abfar Company, which has 234 people, which is considered as a statistical sample by census method. The data collection tool was a questionnaire that was used to determine its validity by cronbach 's alpha method, where the average number was 0.810 which showed acceptable validity of the data collection tool, and spss software was used to analyze the validity of the data. Social capital with an average of 3.44 was at a level above the average also cultural intelligence with an average of 3.8 at a level was above the average. The results of the research hypothesis test indicated that the main hypothesis of the research, entitled The Relationship between Social Capital and Cultural Intelligence of Tehran's Abfar Company with a correlation coefficient of 0.550 at 99% confidence level, had a meaningful and direct relationship in the positive direction. However, the sub-hypotheses of the research on the significant relationship between the components of social capital and cultural intelligence at the 99% confidence level were all confirmed.
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