Indian Railways – World’s largest commercial employer’s social capital inventory

Social Capital among Indian and Iranian Youth and their Families

A Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital: Development and Validation of a Social Capital Inventory

S capital has gained wide acceptability as a fruitful theoretical perspective for understanding and predicting the norms and social relations embedded in the social structures of societies. It is these patterns of social interrelationships that enable people to coordinate action to achieve desired goals (Putnam, 1993). Bourdieu, a French sociologist, was one of the first authors to analyze syst...

The influence of social capital on employers' use of occupational health services: a qualitative study.

BACKGROUND Occupational health services may have a strategic role in the prevention of sickness absence, as well as in rehabilitation and return to work after sick leave, because of their medical expertise in combination with a close connection to workplaces. The purpose of this study was to explore how employers and occupational health service providers describe their business relations and th...

Why Do Employers Retrain At-Risk Workers? The Role of Social Capital

Why are some employers willing to retrain workers who are at risk of layoff for new jobs in their organization, whereas others “churn” their workforce through layoffs and outside hiring? The question seems central to understanding why some employers and some jobs are “good,” whereas others are not and, more generally, for understanding employment security. The arguments herein use national prob...

social capital among indian and iranian youth and their families