The effect of social capital dimensions in enhancing creative thinking skills

Abstract

Abstract This study aims to identify the impact of social capital through its components (collegiality, trust, cooperation, shared values, commitment) in enhancing creative thinking skills with its components (fluency, originality, flexibility, sense of problems, details).The problem of the study is expressed by some of the intellectual and applied questions, aimed at answering them with the intellectual implications of the variables that were dealt with in the study, namely (social capital and creative thinking skills), and then diagnosing their level of importance and the possibility of their application in private universities. This study was applied to a sample of Ahlia universities in the holy Karbala governorate, namely(Ahl al-Bayt, Al-Safwa University, Warith Al-Anbiya University, Al-Hussein University). The sample size reached (100) affiliates occupying senior administrative positions in it. This study has used a set of statistical analyzes and tests (SPss23, ExcLe).The study reached a set of conclusions, including: Social capital is one of the distinct resources that organizations possess, especially if this resource is properly invested and directed to serve the goals that the organization seeks. As for the recommendations, the study presented a set of recommendations to the research community from Among them: the need to invest social capital as an influential factor for developing creative skills and capabilities, thus providing new and high value to the customer and the organization at the same time.