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    The impact of human capital on organizational innovative capability in a private commercial bank of Pakistan
    (University of Management and Technology, 2010) Malik Umer Ayub
    Organizational collective knowledge plays an important role in innovation and also provides a competitive advantage. Human Capital (HC) is the sum total of intelligence found in individual human beings and consists of individual's learning and education, experience and expertise, and personal creativity and innovation. Many researchers believe that only knowledgeable and innovative organizations are going to survive in future in the knowledge based economy. The present study is focused on a Pakistani private commercial bank and is aimed to study the impact of its HC on its Innovative Capability (IC). In this survey based research, four hypotheses were empirically tested. The survey instrument comprised of a 25-item Human Capital Construct, and 27-item Innovative Capability Construct. Using a systematic random sampling design of probability sampling technique, 170 participants from a Pakistani private commercial bank completed this survey. Multivariate data analysis techniques like exploratory factor analysis, multiple regression, and simple regression were used to analyze the data. All four hypotheses for the present study were supported. Findings from the present study reveals that (a) Human Capital (HC) is influenced by bank officers skills/competence, bank officers transformational leadership role, bank officers knowledge, bank officers ability, and bank officers personal mastery; (b) Innovative Capability (IC) of the bank was found influenced by support for innovation available to bank officers, bank officers innovative behavior, and tolerance for difference available to bank officers; (c) bank officers leadership role, bank officers personal mastery, and bank officers ability were significant and positively related to bank's Innovative Capability, whereas, bank officers knowledge was significant and negatively related to bank's Innovative Capability for the present research; and finally (d) bank's collective Human Capital was found to have positive relationship with bank's Innovative Capability. The research limitations of the present study regarding generalization, along with recommendations for future academic research are included as well.