In today's world, known as the world of organizations, human resources
considered as the most valuable resource has been the center of approaches and
activities and it plays an essential role in promoting the goals and objectives of
the organization. Faced with the fact that the mechanical paradigms do not meet
the expectations and requirements of organization, it has led organizations to
seek other paths to achieve competitive advantages. Taking new approaches in
to account, the growth of intellectual capital and organizational citizenship
behavior can be pointed out. Development of practices going beyond the role of
formal expectations requires important infrastructures. This mentioned
empowerment plays an important role in describing social exchange of
organizational citizenship behavior .On the other hand, in the knowledge-based
economy, the intellectual capital is used to create and share knowledge and to
enhance enterprise values. In addition, higher organization’s success for the
management of this scarce resource depends on enjoying more powerful
employees compared to the past. The research is descriptive and it studies the
relationship between empowerment, organizational citizenship behavior, and the
growth of intellectual capital. To collect the theoretical data and to extract initial
factors and indicators, library and Internet resources were used and
questionnaire was used to gather the data needed to evaluate the assumptions. In
this study, random sampling method has been used due to vastness of statistical
population ; non-parametric tests of fitness was used for inferential analysis of
information ; and Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to determine the
intensity of effect of independent variables on dependent ones. Research
findings indicate that a positive and significant relationship exists between the
dimensions of empowerment with organizational citizenship behavior and
growth of Intellectual capital. In other words, becoming more empowered,
employees` growth of intellectual capital has increased and the organization will
enjoy more progressive staff.
