Investigating the Relationship between Strategic Thinking and Intellectual Capital with an Attitude Toward Organizational Innovation among Managers and Experts in Tehran Education Areas

M. Navid Adham, H. Shafizadeh
2019 Fanāvarī-i āmūzish  
and Objective:Tendency to organizational innovation canhappen in the field of manpower, behavioral and psychological studies of employees and recognition of their values ​​and abilities or in the field of technology and industry, equipment, modernization and new technologies or in the structure that includes a set of rules, methods, norms and criteria. Teachers and administrative staff engage in innovation, either directly, that is, implementing new ideas in administrative, technical and
more » ... ional fields by themselves, or indirectly, i.e. welcoming and supporting innovations in the education and classroom environment, in which the spirit of monotonous and repetitive work gradually becomes an innovative behavior at the level of education. Given the challenges such as the crisis in financial resources, increasing unemployment rate of graduates and increasing social demands, it should be noted that minor changes cannot modify the education system. Considering the future of social and economic systems and the role and the responsibility of the educational system in responding to the needs of society, the necessity of strategic thinking in the educational system and the knowledge and mastery of educational managers over strategic management and planning, is a necessary and inevitable thing. The purpose of this study is the investigating the relationship between strategic thinking and intellectual capital with an orientation towards organizational innovation. Methods: The present study is based on the type of applied and based on the method, descriptive-analytic and correlation type. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the managers of the educational districts of Tehran in 181 people, all of whom were considered as sample size. For gathering data, three standard questionnaires include Goldman's strategic thinking questionnaire (2001), Bontis's intellectual capital questionnaire (1998) and Jimenez's organizational innovation questionnaire (2008). Validity of the questionnaire was verif [...]
doi:10.22061/jte.2019.5065.2163 doaj:635ee6dc5b3b4bf1b1d5799fc0285aa8 fatcat:h6dhhxs7ijgitmubmcg3sbpgoe