Meng Annette, Clausen Thomas, Borg Vilhelm
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scand J Psychol. 2018 Apr;59(2):198-205. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12435. Epub 2018 Feb 19.
The study explored the association between team-level social capital and individual-level work engagement. Questionnaire data were collected from six companies in the dairy industry. Seven hundred seventy-two participants divided into 65 teams were included. In confirmatory factor analyses, we found a superior model fit to a four dimensional model of social capital: bonding social capital, bridging social capital and two types of linking social capital. The results showed a positive association between all subtypes of social capital at the team level and work engagement at the individual level. However, this association only remained significant for linking social capital in relation the workplace as a whole when we adjusted for psychosocial working conditions. The level of intra-team agreement in social capital score did not moderate the association between social capital and work engagement. In conclusion, the results provide further support for previous findings suggesting a positive association between social capital and work engagement. They add to the existing knowledge by suggesting that linking social capital in relation to the workplace is the most important explanatory variable for work engagement, thus emphasizing the need to distinguish between subtypes of social capital in research and practice.
该研究探讨了团队层面的社会资本与个体层面的工作投入之间的关联。从六家乳制品行业公司收集了问卷数据。纳入了772名参与者，他们被分为65个团队。在验证性因素分析中，我们发现一个更优模型适合社会资本的四维模型：结合型社会资本、桥接型社会资本和两种类型的联结型社会资本。结果表明，团队层面社会资本的所有子类型与个体层面的工作投入之间存在正相关。然而，当我们对心理社会工作条件进行调整时，这种关联仅在与整个工作场所相关的联结型社会资本方面仍然显著。社会资本得分的团队内部一致性水平并未调节社会资本与工作投入之间的关联。总之，研究结果为先前表明社会资本与工作投入之间存在正相关的研究发现提供了进一步支持。它们通过表明与工作场所相关的联结型社会资本是工作投入最重要的解释变量，丰富了现有知识，从而强调了在研究和实践中区分社会资本子类型的必要性。
