Investigating the relation between social and intellectual capital with knowledge management among the employees of Mazandaran general office of youth and sport

摘要

The present study was conducted to investigate the relation between social capital and knowledge management among the employees of general office of youth and sport of Mazandaran. Regarding the objective, it is an applied research and regarding methodology, it is a descriptive survey of correlation type. Statistical population includes employees of general office of youth and sport of Mazandaran. Simple randomized sampling was used and the number of samples was determined as 80 individuals using Cochran’s formula. The variables were evaluated by questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed in three sections; the first section includes social capital questionnaire based on the Nahapiet and Goshal’s model including 10 items; the second part was intellectual capital questionnaire including 52 items developed by Bontis; and the third part was Kwing’s knowledge management questionnaire which includes 8 items. The questionnaires were scored according to Likert five-point scale. Validity was evaluated by content validity method. Cronbach’s alpha was used to calculate reliability. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, central tendency and variability measures, and inferential statistics such as Pearson and Spearman correlation and stepwise regression. Data were analyzed using SPSS/18 software. Results indicated that in general, there is positive and significant correlation between social and intellectual capitals and knowledge management in general office of youth and sport of Mazandaran.