legal

Who owns the copyrights to your work?

When I joined my current job as General Manager, I have devised processes and procedures that were un-known to the company prior to my employment with them. I have used company’s resources to build these procedures but the original idea was mine.

Now the question that comes to mind is “who owns the rights to this new knowledge”?
This sounds like the “Chicken and Egg” question, who came first? The company had the resources but no knowledge on how to make a good use of it and I had the knowledge on how to put the resources to a good use but I needed the resources that the company had.

If there was no written contract between the employee and the company on who has the rights to the intellectual property at the end of the employment term, what legal process to follow to resolve the issue?