Institutional memory as a mechanism for developing intellectual capital of employees in university youth welfare institutions

Document Type : Applied

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Faculty of Social Work, Helwan University

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University institutions، including university youth welfare institutions، are responsible for developing the intellectual capital of workers by building an active and effective institutional memory to preserve information and knowledge and retrieve it in a timely manner to make current and future decisions.
The study aimed to determine the level of application of institutional memory and intellectual capital in university youth welfare institutions، and to identify the dimensions of institutional memory most related to the development of intellectual capital among workers in university youth welfare institutions، and to monitor the obstacles facing the use of institutional memory for the development of intellectual capital، in order to reach the necessary planning mechanisms to activate The use of institutional memory as an entrance to the development of intellectual capital among workers in university youth welfare institutions.
This study is one of the descriptive studies، and it relied on the social survey method by a comprehensive inventory of (73) employees of the General Administration of Youth Welfare at Helwan University. The results of the study indicate the validity of the main hypothesis of the study and its sub-hypotheses، which is "there is a statistically significant effect of the use of institutional memory on the development of intellectual capital among workers in university youth care institutions."

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