Research Article

The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and the Impact of Intellectual Capital on Employee Performance

Volume: 8 Number: 1 March 28, 2025
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The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and the Impact of Intellectual Capital on Employee Performance

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the impact of intellectual capital on employee performance and to investigate this effect through job satisfaction, a factor focused on employee satisfaction. Despite the existence of studies in the literature examining the impact of intellectual capital on employee performance, research that evaluates this impact through mediating mechanisms and uses statistical approaches suitable for violations of multivariate normality assumptions is limited. In particular, research of this nature is scarce in a regionally focused area such as the tea sector in Turkey. The study was conducted with the participation of 430 employees working in public and private sector tea factories in Rize province. The effect of intellectual capital on employee performance was found to be statistically significant both through job satisfaction and directly. However, while the direct effect is negative, its indirect and total effects are positive. While the sub-dimensions of intellectual capital, human capital and customer capital, have a statistically significant effect on employee performance, the effect of structural capital on employee performance has not been found to be statistically significant. The findings indicate that the impact of intellectual capital on employee performance is complex. The finding that its direct effect is negative indicates that the elements of intellectual capital can reduce performance when not properly managed. Nevertheless, the favorable indirect impact of intellectual capital on job satisfaction demonstrates that employee satisfaction serves to offset this negative effect and even enhance performance.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Workplace Wellbeing and Quality of Working Life , Organisational Behaviour

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

March 28, 2025

Submission Date

December 5, 2024

Acceptance Date

March 10, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 8 Number: 1

APA
Öztürk, Z., & Pehlivanlar, T. (2025). İş Tatmininin Aracılık Rolü ile Entelektüel Sermayenin İş Gören Performansı Üzerindeki Etkisi. Uluslararası Yönetim Akademisi Dergisi, 8(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.33712/mana.1596945

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