Fostering Innovation Through Empowerment: The Relationship Between Women's Empowerment and Intellectual Capital

The purpose of this paper is to define women's administrative empowerment and how it influences acts the development of the intellectual capital. In particular this work explores the determinants of Intellectual capital particularly delegation of authority, communication, participation and incentives within a financial institution in Bahrain. Further, this study examines the sample characteristics (age, education, experience) predicting the administrative leverage of women. A questionnaire was adopted as the main data collection instrument, in form of Google Forms to capture the responses. Descriptive data was analyzed using (SPSS) while test-retest reliability was determined by Cronbach's alpha. includes managers, department heads, specialist, secretaries and technicians numbering 761 employees at the studied financial institution. The research sample consists of 120 female employees selected from different branches and departments of the bank. A key interaction is that all dimensions of women's administrative empowerment enhance the development of intellectual capital in the bank. The effect is that doing so enhances communication and the efficiency gains that are inherent in the growth of Intellectual Capital.