Abstract

Today, intellectual capital in terms of its nature and its growing importance in innovation is regarded as a competitive advantage and as an indicator of organization economic performance and as a sign of growth and development of a country. Therefore, the goal of this study is to explore the relationship between intellectual capital management and organizational innovation in the branches of Melli Bank in Iran in 2010 to 2011.The method of the study is descriptive and correlation type. The statistical sample group includes 155 employees of the bank staff in 2011 (according to Kerjciey-Morgan table). The relative classified and random sampling was used. Two standard questionnaires as the research tools were used to explore the relationship between intellectual capital management and organizational innovation. The experts confirmed the validity of the questionnaires. The reliability was assessed by Cronbach‘s alpha method and the rate for intellectual capital management was 94% and for organizational innovation questionnaire was 93%. For analysis of data, first the demographic indexes of the sample and descriptive indexes of the variables were studied. Then, correlation matrix, statistic indexes of regression, path factors and sufficiency index and sufficiency model were used. The findings for the main hypothesis showed that there is a relationship between intellectual capital management and organizational innovation with 95% reliability. There is also a relationship between parameters of intellectual capital management (relational capital, organizational capital, human capital) and intellectual capital management with 95% reliability. The rate of regression shows that rate of relational capital is higher than the rate of human capital. LISREL output shows no indirect impact of intellectual capital on organizational innovation and occupational and personal factors.

Key words: Intellectual capital management, human capital, structural capital, relational capital, organizational innovation.