relational capital

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the status of intellectual capital at the Qom branch of Islamic Azad University from the perspective of faculty members. This research is applied in terms of its objectives and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population included 176 faculty members of Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, of whom 110 were selected as the sample through stratified random sampling based on Cochran's formula. Data were collected using Bontis' 42-item intellectual capital questionnaire, with a reliability score of 0.93 based on Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis, both descriptive methods and inferential tests, including one-sample t-tests and ANOVA, were employed using SPSS software. The results indicated that, overall, the status of intellectual, human, and structural capital in the Qom branch of Islamic Azad University is favorable, but relational capital is below average. Among the faculties, the Faculty of Humanities had the highest intellectual and structural capital, the Faculty of Medical Sciences had the highest human capital but the lowest structural capital, the Faculty of Basic Sciences had the highest relational capital, and the Faculty of Engineering had the lowest intellectual, human, and relational capital. The status of intellectual capital in the faculties of Medical Sciences and Basic Sciences did not differ significantly. Despite the relatively favorable status of intellectual capital at the Qom branch of Islamic Azad University, achieving the higher objectives of intellectual capital requires more managerial planning and attention.

Since one of the challenges of free university officials to prepare a suitable environment for the growth and development of the staff and faculty of the mind as a knowledge-based organization. The research in Islamic Azad University of Kerman, which is considered one of the most important parts of education in the country, Presentation of a model for identifyingg the relationship between intellectual capital and psychological empowerment of employees of Islamic Azad University of Kerman. The statistical population of this research includes all employees of Islamic Azad University of Kerman and then random sampling by using Cochran formula, 271 people were selected. Data collection was done through a questionnaire and the analysis of data was done by means of Spss and Amos software. That the purpose is applied and the method of collecting data, descriptive and, in particular, is based on structural equation modeling. The study population included all employees of Islamic Azad University of Kerman. Sampling is done in two stages.

Today, the creation and management of knowledge assets play a decisive role in maintaining the viability and value creation of universities. However, it seems still no agreement has been formed on the most fundamental knowledge assets that generally are intangible. The existing understandings of knowledge assets of universities which are generally partial, personal and not tested, have failed to lead to specific methods and tools for creating and managing of knowledge assets. In this regard the present research examines the usefulness of its proposed model (pattern of university intellectual capital recognition) in a case study. For this purpose, firstly on the basis of analyzing the different patterns of intellectual capital, a comprehensive ‘’pattern of university intellectual capital recognition’’ has been extracted. Then the recognition of respondents about the intellectual capital of university has been investigated by a survey. In the next step, findings of survey has been extracted and then compared with the ‘’pattern of university intellectual capital recognition’’. Finally the results are discussed. The method used is descriptive through a survey. The Society of study includes 300 faculties and 19 managers of Sharif University of Technology. The sample of study includes 103 faculties by Stratified random sampling and 9 managers from the census. The Measuring instrument is a questionnaire which made by researcher and gathers data about IC from faculty members and managers. The results of this study indicate that the findings of the survey are highly consistent with the obtained pattern.

This study which is practical in terms of the objectives and descriptive – correlation in terms of research method, aims to propose a model for identifying the relationship between intellectual capital and employees’ psychological empowerment among female staff of Islamic Azad University (branches of Science and Research, North, Center, and South). Statistical population includes all female employees (1600) in different branches of Islamic Azad University in Tehran. Using the stratified random sampling and Cochran formula, 310 individuals were selected as the sample. A questionnaire was used for data collection and SPSS and PLS software packages were used to analyze data. The results revealed that there was a significant relationship between the employees’ psychological empowerment and the intellectual capital together with its dimensions and, including human capital, structural capital, and relational capital.

In the new decade the resource of competitive advantage changed from tangible and hard assets to intangible and soft assets. Due to importance of intellectual capital and measurement of it in higher education systems practitioners of this system needs to know the main elements of intellectual capital and methods of measurement these elements. Identifying the elements of intellectual capital helps the higher education managers system to improve the managing these assets effectively and more appropriately. This research tries to examine the intellectual capital measurement methods and deliver the practical and appropriate method according to three elements of Haman capital, organizational capital and relational capital for measuring these assets. The research method was Meta Analysis. In this research we analysis the negative and positive points of intellectual capital measurement models and finally the model that relatively adequate for higher education offered. Result (s): There are different ways to measure intellectual capital, which includes strengths and weaknesses. Measurement model should be designed based on goals and the mission of higher education institutions.

The social capital of employees is seen as a crucial element in their performance and creativity as well. Although many investigations have been done in this regard, the case of Kaveh Industrial Estate Employees are however studied here. The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of social capital of employees on their creativity in the foundry industry of Iran, the case of Kaveh Industrial Estate. All the employees of Kaveh Industrial Estate (110 people) contained the study population and the researchers used the table of sample size determination developed by Morgan and also random sampling to choose 87 people as our sample size. The present study in its nature is an applied research which is of the exploratory survey type regarding its data collection approach, and is considered as a quantitative research regarding the type of the collected data. Then Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) procedure for analyzing our conceptual model with SMART PLS 2.0 in two sections of SEM: measurement model and structural model. In the first section, technical features of questionnaire were investigated with index reliability, convergent validity and discriminate validity. About second section, structural coefficients were used to examine the hypothesizes. The results indicated the positive and significant impact of social capital on employee creativity in Foundry Industry of Iran. The results are discussed in terms of their importance and implications.

The study aims to develop a native pattern for intellectual capital indicators aimed to measure these indicators in the Ahwaz University of Shahid Chamran. Therefore, the current study was done in a process including four phases which could lead to domestication of intellectual capital indicators. For this, initially and in order to identify a preliminary list of indicators, relevant references and documents were reviewed. Towards identifying appropriate indicators which can be suited to the Ahwaz University of Shahid Chamran, in the next step the views of the field experts were analyzed. Accordingly taking into consideration of the university’s goals, the process was followed by selecting relevant indicators and identifying the most important indicators based on the university’s senior managers. As a result, 77 indicators were selected as the final draft of intellectual capital indicators. At last the status of these indicators in the university was measured during 2004 to 2008. The findings showed that although about 71.88 percent of the all indicators were matched to the university’s goals, about 28.12 percent of them were not matched to the goals. Additionally finding revealed that in compare to the university’ human capital, the university’s structural capital had a better condition.