أثر القيادة بالتمكين على كفاءة رأس المال الفكري في ظل إقتصاد المعرفة - دراسة حالة

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the degree of practicing leadership by empowerment in Algeria’s General Directorate of Telecommunication through its dimensions, as well as the level of intellectual capital competence through the basic components, and to identify the impact of leadership by empowerment on the intellectual capital competence as it is seen by the directorate workers. In this study, we concluded through the theoretical part that the leadership by empowerment is a modern leadership method aims to remove workers' restrictions and free them from bureaucratic procedures and strict control to participate in information, make collective decisions, and expand the use of powers and assume more responsibilities in order to release their potential abilities, physical and cognitive strengths towards innovation and renovation. The implicit knowledge is in the human beings' minds and if these ideas are not sharpened and ably put up, there will be no creativity or innovation. In order to practice leadership by empowerment in a the light of knowledge economy, this requires giving up the traditional leadership model that focuses on directing to a leadership that believes in participation and consultation, which in turn requires a radical change in the roles of work and hence the relationship between the administrative leader and the worker. For The role of the administrative leader, it requires a shift from control and guidance to trust and delegation, and for the role of the worker, it requires the shift from following the rules and instructions to participating in decision-making. Leadership plays a major role in fostering and activating the participation and empowerment programs in the Organization. As many of the relevant studies indicate that the secret of success of any project is due to the role leadership, its commitment, and enthusiasm. And The role of leadership in the success of partnership and empowerment programs is almost very important because empowerment requires leaders and higher department abdicate some of the influence they enjoy and to have the strong willingness to do so, and redistributing that influence on workers at different levels of the organization. As well as, we reached to a clear mental understanding of the intellectual capital competence which reflects the ability of workers, who represent intellectual capital, to coordinate and to link between its basic components. As the intellectual capital competence is determined through its combined elements and components. It is not possible to speak about the competence of intellectual capital in the absence of one of its components, mainly structural capital, client capital, social capital, psychological capital, and human capital. The latter, which is the most important component of intellectual capital as it is the engine of creativity and the crucial resource in creating value added which contributes to the competitiveness of the organization in the knowledge economy. In order to test this, we designed a questionnaire based on the proposed study model. After arbitrating it, we distributed it to a random sample of workers in Algeria’s General Directorate of telecommunications, in which we distributed 208 questionnaires and we obtained (176) valid questionnaire for analysis. We processed the data based on some of the relevant statistical tests available in the SPSS program. At the end, we reached a set of results, the most important ones are: ةيزيهجنلإا ةغهناب صخهمنا - Members of the study sample agreed that there is a practice of leadership by empowerment in Algeria’s General Directorate of telecommunications at a high level; - Members of the study sample agreed that the level of intellectual capital competence at Algeria’s General Directorate of telecommunications is high; - There were no differences with statistical significance (α ≤ 0.05) in the estimates of the study sample members of the workers due to the variables (gender, career status) and the existence of differences with statistical significance due to the variables (age group, educational level, seniority years) for the leadership by empowerment axis ; - There were no differences with statistical significance (α ≤ 0.05) towards the personal and functional variables (gender, age group, years of seniority) and the existence of differences with statistical significance towards variables (level of education, career status) for the axis of intellectual capital competence; - There is a significant impact of the leadership by empowerment on the intellectual capital competence in Algeria’s General Directorate of telecommunications, where the leadership by empowerment explains (80%) of the variation in the competence of intellectual capital