Designing an Intellectual Capital Measuring Model for Iranian Cultural Public Organizations

Intellectual capital is a knowledge that can create value. Nowadays, attention to intellectual capital is an approach that provides instrument for efficiency and effectiveness fulfilment for public department's managers and hence, intangible elements are paid attention intensively in public departments, in spite of the emphasis, there is a place for intellectual capital in public organizations hardly ever and so far, a few number of public organizations attempts to measure, manage and report their intangible assets. To deal with managing these capitals better, this research intends to present a model for measuring and evaluating intellectual capitals level in Iranian public cultural organization and testing the model through evaluating intellectual capitals in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance as the largest and main organization, custadian of culture in Iran. In this study, the research primary model was designed after a review on intellectual capital literature and particularly measurment models and evaluation of intellectual capital in public organizations, then by using focus group and delphi techniques and ideas of a panel of experts, model's criteria were adjusted and reformed and the resulted questionnaire was examined in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. Findings analysis confirmed research hypotheses and the validity of presented model for meadsuring and evaluating intellectual capital in public cultural organizations.