Providing a Framework for Unravelling of Social Capital Meta-Synthesis Approach

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide a framework for reproduction of social capital in the workplace, to analyze the qualitative results of researches carried out in the field of social capital and its decline in the organization to create solutions for the reproduction of social capital. The emphasis of this research is on the reproduction of social capital, the application of the method of extension, which is one of the overarching methods, along with the foundation's analysis of the data. According to this approach, after compilation of research questions, initial search and refinement of resources related to the issue of social capital between 2010 and 2019, 356 sources were found, out of which 93 sources were selected and analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin Foundation (1990) was coded. The result of coding is the extraction of 11 sub-categories and the six main categories in relation to reproduction of social capital in the workplace. The results show that the categories of reproduction of social capital in the workplace in the context of causative causation include behavioral capacity building and normative co-operation, in the dimension of the intervening factors including perceived individual and perceived value, in the dimension of the field factors including organizational and environmental adaptation and in the dimensions of the strategies including structural and social strategies. According to the results of this research, the reproduction of social capital in the workplace creates a variety of individual, organizational and social implications

Keywords

• unravelling of social capital
• behavioral capacity building
• normative synergy
• structural strategies
• social strategies
• perceived individual value
• perceived group value