The Effect of Intellectual Capital on Knowledge Management with the Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment

For many years, at the competitive examination, Yazd province students have the highest ac- ceptance rate to enter university. The attention to knowledge management and its impact in the creation of an intangible capital type (but vital) called intellectual investment among employees and institutional managers responsible to educate are an indispensable necessity in the education department of Yazd province. In this regard, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of in- tellectual capital on knowledge management with the interceding role of organizational commitment in the General Office of Education in Yazd province, Iran. The results showed that intellectual capital af- fects knowledge management and intellectual capital is imperative for organizational commitment. Or- ganizational commitment influences knowledge management. Organizational commitment has a signifi- cant positive mediation effect in the influencing of intellectual capital on knowledge management.