Evaluating the Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Sharing among Librarians in Tehran University of Medical Sciences

The present study examines the relationship between intellectual capital and knowledge sharing among librarians in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. This research is a practical, descriptive and correlative study. The study population included all university librarians of this university. Data were collected by means of Bontis intellectual capital questionnaire (2004) and knowledge sharing questionnaire of Bukowitz and Williams (1999). To assess the permanency of internal consistency between the items, Cronbach's alpha was used (above 70%). To analyze the statistical data, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. The results of the analysis showed that there was a positive relationship, less than the average level, between intellectual capital and knowledge sharing among the librarians in Tehran University of Medical Sciences.