Modeling the Impact of Social Capital on Intellectual Capital in the Public Sector of Educational Administration

The purpose of the present study was to provide a structural model for intellectual capital in the public sector of educational administration based on social capital in Iran. The population of the research included all employees in the public sector of educational administration in Tehran city. 382 employees were selected using simple random sampling method. The research instruments were two questionnaires which were administered in the public sector of educational administration in Tehran city: Sayyadi's (2010) social capital questionnaire which consisted of 31 items with seven underlying constructs of trust, networks, cooperation, collective action, empathy, participation and social identity and Cronbach Alpha of 0.90, and Bontis's (1997) intellectual capital questionnaire which consisted of 50 items with three underlying constructs of human capital, customer capital, and structural capital and Cronbach Alpha of 0.87. The results of path analysis using LISREL software indicated that dimensions of social capital had a direct effect on intellectual capital with the indices of 0.61. The model also showed that the factor of collective action in social capital had the highest direct effect on intellectual capital.