Adopting continuous improvement as a path for developing social capital, an analytical study at the Administrative Technical College / Kufa - Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University

Abstract

This research aims to clarify the extent to which continuous improvement contributes to the development of social capital, that is, through continuous improvement, it can keep pace with all the advances and developments that the world is witnessing, and social capital is a combination of knowledge and cooperative relations prevailing within the organization that help it achieve its goals. The research problem indicates that there is a clear deficiency in determining the importance of adopting continuous improvement in developing social capital by the members of the surveyed sample. The Administrative Technical College of Kufa was chosen as the field for research. A number of employees working in the college were selected as a sample for research, with (30) individuals. The questionnaire was adopted as a main tool for obtaining research data, which was prepared based on a number of ready-made measures that were previously subject to validity and reliability measures. In order to enter and analyze the research data, the ready-made statistical program (SPSS) was used. The results of the research, most of them confirm the existence of a correlation and influence between continuous improvement and the development of social capital, and accordingly, one of the most important recommendations is to emphasize the need to increase the interest of the researched organization in applying continuous improvement in its operations. And employing these improvements in developing social capital.