THE APPRAISAL OF THE EFFECT OF STAFFS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT ON THE QUALITY DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL: A CASE STUDY OF SHAHID HASHEMI NEJAD GAS REFINING COMPANY

3 Abstract: The present research intends to appraise the effect of staffs' entrepreneurial spirit on the quality development of human capital. It is an applied research which has been accomplished through a descriptive method. The statistical universe of the research is consisting of 700 staffs of Shahid Hashemi Nejad Gas Refining Company. The researcher, on the basis of research method and simple random sampling, has considered 247 of the staffs as the statistical sample. The instruments which have been applied to assemble the data have been standard questionnaire and data analysis in the direction of descriptive and correlation (regression) methods. Software SPSS has also been used to analyze the data, correlations and regression tables and ILSREL has been applied to data fitting through a conceptual model. Considering the analysis of research data, whole hypotheses of the research have been averred. The final results indicate that engendering a spirit of entrepreneurship apropos of the quality of human capital (consisting of innovation level, risk propensity, meeting success, concentration on the decision-making, self-confidence and the capacity ambiguity resolution) can augment the quality of human capital and such possibilities can promote the level of productivity and final efficiency of the organization. Therefore, educating the organization's staffs on the entrepreneurship principles can be considered as an efficacious strategy.