Knowledge Management
Farajallah Rahimi; Bahar Khalili; Belghis Bavarsad
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Addressing knowledge management and organizational wisdom in the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Lorestan Province is very important and necessary. Because it helps to transform the potential knowledge and awareness of experienced employees into actual knowledge through ...
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Background and Objectives: Addressing knowledge management and organizational wisdom in the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Lorestan Province is very important and necessary. Because it helps to transform the potential knowledge and awareness of experienced employees into actual knowledge through communication with clients (farmers in the region), which in addition to continuously increasing the quality of products, the efficiency of the organization will also have an upward trend. The constant presence of various ranges of valuable and specialized human resources in various fields and disciplines, as well as the flow of experiences and types of knowledge in this huge and extensive organization, doubles the necessity of creating a suitable model of knowledge management to benefit from these exceptional advantages. This study is a qualitative research, based on the grounded theory approach, aiming at designing a model of organizational wisdom from knowledge management point of view.
Methodology: This research is an exploratory-applied research in terms of its applied purpose and the method of collecting descriptive information. This research is fundamental in that it seeks to discover fundamental principles and scientific laws, or to identify empirical relationships, or to gain awareness, or to add to new general knowledge, without considering its value in practice or seeking to discover new knowledge. The study population of the research was the employees of the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Lorestan Province, which includes senior managers, deputies, experts, and employees. In this study, a combination of the above was used for sampling. Thus, first, the available samples were studied, and with the cooperation of the participants and the use of snowball sampling, subsequent samples were purposefully selected and studied until theoretical saturation. To collect data, semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of the said community to answer the research questions. Individual interviews with selected individuals continued until data saturation, which was 25 people. The duration of each interview was between 40 and 75 minutes, and the interviewed experts who have the greatest influence on decision-making in the creation of wisdom covered the theoretical saturation of the research.
Findings: Data analysis with a systematic approach is the foundation of data theory. In this research, in order to analyze the obtained data, a semi-structured interview method with a three-step process of open coding, central coding and selective coding was used. According to this approach, in the open coding stage, the expressions extracted from the interviews, which are specific to the area of the Agricultural Jihad Department of Lorestan province, are summarized in 119 main codes and 19 categories. Validation of the research was done using four criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. This research presents a model that classifies the effective factors, barriers and intervening factors, and the consequences of creating organizational wisdom, taking into account knowledge management, into five core categories.
Discussion: Identifying these factors and obstacles helps the organization to make decisions regarding the creation of wisdom, so that while recognizing these factors and limitations, it takes steps in the direction of creating wisdom. Organizational wisdom is also an important factor that affects the self-awareness and control of the emotions of the members of the organization. The presented paradigmatic model shows the factors and barriers facing wisdom creation, the content, intervention and outcome factors, taking into account knowledge management, in relation to each other in the organization, which can be studied to examine the existing situation.
