Studying the Effect of Social - Cultural Factors on Organizational Health and the Mediating Role of Core Value

Abstract

In this study, besides investigating the efficacy of Social - Cultural Factors on organizational health, the role of valuation as a mediating variable are studied. Because recognizing the relationship among these variables is considered essential in order to survive in the turbulent world today. The present applied research is descriptive-survey in terms of method. The statistical population includes managers and employees of selected organizations in Maragheh and Zanjan. The statistical sample size determined as 443 subjects using Cochran's formula and the questionnaires were distributed among samples using stratified random sampling. structural equation modeling of SPSS20 and PLS software were used to test the hypotheses. Results show that Social - Cultural Factors affects organizational health with severity (0.19) and it affects organizational health with mediating role of valuation with severity (0.66). Also, the Islamic Development Organization allocated the highest mean score of Social - Cultural Factors (4/39) the organizational health score (3/64), and The Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs (3/47).

Keywords

• cultural-social factors
• organizational health
• core value of organization
• demographic characteristics