The Verification and Identification of the Influential Factors on Organizational Knowledge Sharing Process among Staff of Mazandaran Province’s Education and Training Administration with Structural Equation Model

Samadi-Miarkolaei, Hossein; Samadi-Miarkolaei, Hamzeh; GHolami Avati, Ramezan; Bastami, Masoud

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ M.A.of Public Administration, Young Researcher & Elite Club, Islamic Azad University, Iran

² Ph.D of Public Administration, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

³ Assistant Professor Department of Management and Economic, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Instructor Department of Business Management, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of present research is verification and identification of influential factors on knowledge sharing process among Education and Training Administration's staff of Mazandaran.
Methodology: This study, in terms of dada collection, is an analytical-descriptive study, and in terms of research objectives, is an applied study. Statistical population of the present study includes 387 Education and Training Administration's staff of Mazandaran that 172 staffs are selected as statistical sample. For collecting data, we used the standard questionnaires which were used by (Jacobs & Roodt, 2007), and data analysis so performed by SPSS and LISREL software.
Findings: The results of structural equation modeling showed that all 5 studied variables such as gathering, self-efficacy, knowledge presentation, organizational climate, and behavioral control both directly and indirectly influenced on organizational knowledge sharing process. So the results of assumptions testing showed that all variables are influential and verifier of knowledge sharing process separately.
Conclusion: The knowledge-based age in which the knowledge is counted as the most important asset of organizations, requires to a distinctive management approach towards the organizational and personnel problems. The change of the nature of organizational activities into the knowledge activities causes increasingly importance of applying knowledge management and it's sharing within organizations. Therefore, successful organizations continuously evaluate and measure the extent of production, dissemination, exchange, and utilization of knowledge among their employees by different methods through which they are able to attain to the alternatives of achieving organizational goals.

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Digital Knowledge Management

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Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 15
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The Verification and Identification of the Influential Factors on Organizational Knowledge Sharing Process among Staff of Mazandaran Province’s Education and Training Administration with Structural Equation Model

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Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 15December 2017Pages 19-32

Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 15
December 2017
Pages 19-32