The Role of Intellectual Capital and Learning Organizational Culture on Capacity for Organizational Learning and Knowledge Creation among Medical Staff of Imam Reza Hospital

The hospitals are the most interactive organizations. Their interactions can lead to learn and knowledge-creation of human resources if so the direction of its culture is to the learning organization direction. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of intellectual capital on organizational learning capacity and knowledgecreation in health organizations. In this regard, addressing the mediator of the learning organization is a priority. The methodology of this research was descriptive– correlative method–; and the statistical population was included of the medical staff. A sample of 200 employees from 800 personal of statistical universe, using Cochran formula, was used. To collect the data, Standard questionnaires– their validity and reliability approved in the earlier internal and external researches- were used, such as intellectual capital of Bontise (2004), learning organization culture of Yang (2004), Knowledge Creation of Choi and Lee (2002) and organizational learning capacity of Chiva (2007). In order to evaluate the relationship between latent variables measured in the conceptual model, structural equation modeling techniques were used. The findings showed the highest level of correlation was between intellectual capital and organizational learning capacity (.77) and the lowest level of correlation between intellectual capital and learning organization culture (.56). As well as, the role of mediator of learning organization culture in this study was approved.