Fattah Nazem and Mina Mozaiini
The purpose of the present study was to provide a structural model of intellectual capital in higher education institutions based on organizational culture. The population of the research included all employees of Islamic Azad University, IAU,. 996 employees were selected using stratified and cluster random sampling method. The research instruments were two questionnaires which were administered in 86 IAU branches and education centers: Bontis’s, 1997, Intellectual Capital Questionnaire which consisted of 52 items with three underlying constructs of human capital, customer capital, and structural capital and Cronbach Alpha of 0.95 and a researcher-made questionnaire for organizational culture which was constructed based on the Robbin’s ,1996, theory with 28 items and underlying factors of individual initiative, risk tolerance, direction, integration, conflict tolerance, management contact, control, and reward system ,α = 0.92,. The results of path analysis using LISREL software indicated that dimensions of organizational culture had a direct effect on intellectual capital with the indices of 0.85 .The model also showed that the factors of individual initiative and direction in organizational culture had the highest direct effect on the intellectual capital.
