Comparison of Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital in Islamic Azad and Payame Noor Universities of Kerman Province

Subject Areas : Agriculture Marketing and Commercialization

Abbas Babaei Nejad ¹ ( Ph.D. student, Department of Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran )
Masoud Pourkiani ² ( Department of Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran, )
Shiva Madahian ³ ( Department of Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran )

Received: 2020-09-01 Accepted : 2021-03-01 Published : 2021-06-01

Keywords: Knowledge management, Intellectual Capital, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Payame noor University,

Abstract :

The present study aims to investigate and compare the status of knowledge management and intellectual capital in Islamic Azad and Payame Noor universities in Kerman province. The present study is based on descriptive assumptions and is a survey study in terms of method. The statistical population of the study includes all professors and faculty members of Payame Noor University and the Islamic Azad University of Kerman Branch. Sampling was by the stratified method. To analyze data, Statistical formulas of t and the mean difference of t and Levene's test were performed using SPSS software. To collect the required data, two researcher-made questionnaires were used. To determine the validity, the content validity method was used, so that the validity of the questionnaire of factors related to intellectual capital was 88% and the knowledge management questionnaire was 88% and to measure reliability using Cronbach's alpha, the reliability value for intellectual capital questionnaires was 96% and knowledge management was 95%. Findings from the t-test showed that there is no difference between knowledge management and intellectual capital in Islamic Azad and Payame Noor universities in Kerman province.

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