Effects of Intellectual Capital on Organizational Innovation and Organizational Agility in Staff of Youth and Sport Offices: Role of Professional Ethics Mediatoق

The aim of the present work was to investigate the effects of the intellectual capital on the organizational innovation and organizational agility considering the mediating role of the professional ethics variable.

The statistical society was all the staff of the Youth and Sport offices in Isfahan. The sample was determined to be 260 and it was selected by the categorized random method. For data collection about the intellectual capital, organizational innovation, organizational agility, and professional ethics variables, the Bontis, Chua Chong, and Richardson (1998) standard questionnaire; the Choupani (2012) standard questionnaire; the Jafar Nejad and Shahaie (2007) standard questionnaire; and the Cardozier and Brown (2004) standard questionnaire were used, respectively. For data analysis, the structural equation modeling by the SMART PLS software was used.

The results obtained showed that the intellectual capital had a positive and significant effect on the organizational innovation by the coefficient of 0.24, on the organizational agility by the coefficient of 0.48, and on the professional ethics by the coefficient of 0.92. Also, the intellectual capital had a positive and significant effect on the organizational innovation and organizational agility by the coefficients of 0.69 and 0.52 indirectly according to the professional ethics mediator path.

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