Explaining the mediating role of organizational learning capacity in the relationship between intellectual capital and organizational learning with job performance

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• siroos ghanbari ¹
• parvaneh mohamdi ²

¹ Professor of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

² PhD candidate Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.

10.30495/jedu.2022.26649.5326

Abstract

Introduction: This study aimed to explain the mediating role of organizational learning capacity in the relationship between intellectual capital and organizational learning with job performance.
research methodology: Methodology of the research was descriptive-correlative. The statistical population consisted of the staff of the Education Department of Sanandaj city in the academic year of 1398-1399 with 503 people. The sampling method was random. The sample size according to the Kregci-Morgan model was considered 215 persons. For data collection, intellectual capital questionnaire of Bunites (2001), organizational learning of Chuwa (2007), organizational learning capacity questionnaire      of Neef (2001) and job performance questionnaire of Paterson (1988) were used. Validity of the tools was confirmed by the professors of education and psychology. Data were analyzed using two software’s Spss vs. ₂₂ and lisrel. 8/50 and analyzed by structural equation modeling
Findings: The results showed that variables of organizational learning capacity and organizational learning directly and the variables of intellectual capital and organizational learning indirectly have a significant impact on employees' job performance through the variable of organizational learning capacity (P<0/05). Conclusion: It is suggested that efforts to strengthen intellectual capital and provide support for enhancing organizational learning and improving organizational learning capacity as a serious priority are suggested.

Keywords

• Organizational learning capacity
• intellectual capital
• organizational learning
• job performance

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