A Study on the Indicator Constuction of Individual Level Intellectual Capital

What is ‘potential talent’? Whether intellectual capital can be sought after at an individual level is a question that some organizations are now asking when selecting new talent (employees), in order to create competitive advantage. This topic is the key motivation for our research. Our research follows on from this year’s National Science Council (NSC) Project content, and aims to further verify the criterion-related validity between intellectual capital’s effects at an individual level, and work outcome variables. The NSC project is expected to show the properties of intellectual capital at an individual level. In line with these findings, our research will develop specific measuring indices to measure individual intellectual capital, and verify the predictive validity of the above mentioned indices to work outcome variables such as work performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and workplace deviance behavior. This will be done in order to confirm the relationship between individual intellectual capital indices and job performance. In developing the measurement indices, we plan to conduct validity testing, through analyzing literature, conducting focus group interviews with experts, and completing two pre-tests on student samples to test the study design’s reliability and validity. The formal survey will use employees as the research subjects, asking them to self-evaluate their individual intellectual capital indices, and then comparing these with work outcome variables provided by their direct supervisors. We expect to collect 300 valid paired samples to analyze. The knowledge base in regards to intellectual capital at the organizational and country levels has been gradually increasing in quality over time. Our research will focus on the individual level of intellectual capital, completing a gap in the current theory, and providing the industry with a practical method to evaluate an ‘employee’s potential’, for use in selecting employees.

Project ID:PF10007-2484
External Project ID:NSC100-2410-H182-003