With the joint cooperation of Payam Noor University and the Scientific Association of Iran Public Library Advancement

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D Candidate, Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Purpose: Online knowledge sharing is one of the most central needs in Knowledge-oriented organizations, so the present study was conducted with the aim of influencing individual and environmental factors on the empowerment of professors and staff of seminaries in Tabriz in online sharing knowledge
Methodology:  The present study was applied and the method of doing it was correlation. The statistical population included all teachers and staff of seminaries in Tabriz, 162 people who were working in Tabriz in 1400. Using Morgan table, 114 of these professors and staff were selected as the research statistical population of this study, so they were selected by available sampling method. The research measurement tools included researcher-made questionnaires of individual and environmental factors on knowledge sharing, employee empowerment questionnaire in the field of online sharing. So, the validity of which was confirmed by using content validity method and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The relationship between variables with Pearson correlation coefficient and predicting online knowledge sharing empowerment was measured by individual and environmental factors by calculating regression.
 
Findings: The results of this study indicated that there is a positive and significant correlation between individual and environmental factors with empowerment in online sharing. Multiple correlation coefficient is 0.57 and coefficient of determination is 0.32.
Conclusion: Low average of items such as (enjoyment of helping others, rewards, mutual benefits, loss of power and mental norms, trust) among the professors and staff of seminaries in Tabriz can be explained as follows. Professors and staff have less specialized knowledge and skills to share and exchange knowledge with each other online.

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