This paper explores the role of social capital in human resources management. We suggest that the recent interest in social capital has neglected the possibility that social networks may contain negative ties, and that attention to these negative ties may provide additional insights into understanding relationships and social networks in organizations. Research focusing on the antecedents and c...

MY INTEREST OVER the last ten years has moved from the study of smaller social units to that of larger ones, from greater concern with conceptualization to an emphasis on the social relevance of social science, and from a fair segregation of the role of the sociologist and the active citizen to a greater effort to articulate the two. In so doing, I believe my work reflects trends which affect s...

the welfare policies and programs in the iran had started to establish modern state in iran since 1925.this paper deals with the relation between oil revenues and social welfare in iran before 1978(1357) revolution. why developmental activities within welfare policies and programs couldn’t maintain their stability and continuity? the bureaucrats and redefined groups were became the main target ...

today's world has been the world of media. today can hardly find a place that people are far and separated from the media and media effects. practices, knowledge, tastes, and many teachings of daily life of every human, somehow directly or indirectly will be affected by what the media has covered. this article attempts to focus on national media audience on one hand and satellite television net...

mustafa lutfi el-manfaluti is one of the literary men whose writing method was effective on literary change of the previous generation. he was born in egypt. he was interested in reading literary books; that’s why he had completed the science by mohammad abdoh. he had translated many stories and articles and had applied some french stories in his writings. his books are the most eloquent arabic...

background and purpose: managers’ competencies leave a decisive effect on the mental health of staff. the present research intends to investigate the influence of emotional-social competencies on the mental health of the staff. method: the current research is practical in its purpose and correlative regarding data gathering. the statistical community included all the staff of pegah company in d...

social interest is human phenomenon which can be considered as structure of personality in psychology. this descriptive correlation study aimed to investigate self efficacy, social acceptance and locus of control as predictors of social interest. this was correlational study. the sample consisted of 153 boys and 147 girls who were studying at private middle schools. multistage cluster sampling ...

abstract background: this study aimed to explore the role of social capital within the context of the nursing profession in iran, based on the experience and perspectives of senior nursing managers. materials and methods: the study was conducted using the graneheim and lundman content analysis method. using purposive sampling, 26 senior nursing managers from the ministry of health and medical e...