Author/Authors :
Dehnad, Meisam Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch - Department of Management, ايران
Abstract :
In today s world, known as the world of organizations, human resources considered as the most valuable resource has been the center of approaches and activities and it plays an essential role in promoting the goals and objectives of the organization. Faced with the fact that the mechanical paradigms do not meet the expectations and requirements of organization, it has led organizations to seek other paths to achieve competitive advantages. Taking new approaches in to account, the growth of intellectual capital and organizational citizenship behavior can be pointed out. Development of practices going beyond the role of formal expectations requires important infrastructures. This mentioned empowerment plays an important role in describing social exchange of organizational citizenship behavior .On the other hand, in the knowledge-based economy, the intellectual capital is used to create and share knowledge and to enhance enterprise values. In addition, higher organization’s success for the management of this scarce resource depends on enjoying more powerful employees compared to the past. The research is descriptive and it studies the relationship between empowerment, organizational citizenship behavior, and the growth of intellectual capital. To collect the theoretical data and to extract initial factors and indicators, library and Internet resources were used and questionnaire was used to gather the data needed to evaluate the assumptions. In this study, random sampling method has been used due to vastness of statistical population ; non-parametric tests of fitness was used for inferential analysis of information ; and Pearson s correlation coefficient was used to determine the intensity of effect of independent variables on dependent ones. Research findings indicate that a positive and significant relationship exists between the dimensions of empowerment with organizational citizenship behavior and growth of Intellectual capital. In other words, becoming more empowered, employees` growth of intellectual capital has increased and the organization will enjoy more progressive staff.