Knowledge Management
leyli taherkhani; safiyeh tahmasebi limooni; Mitra Ghiasi
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Background and Objectives: To explain the effect of web knowledge sharing on knowledge entrepreneurship according to the mediating role of information technology acceptance based on the TOE model among the employees of the Iran Public Librarries Foundation.
Methodology: In terms of purpose, the present ...
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Background and Objectives: To explain the effect of web knowledge sharing on knowledge entrepreneurship according to the mediating role of information technology acceptance based on the TOE model among the employees of the Iran Public Librarries Foundation.
Methodology: In terms of purpose, the present research is applied, and in terms of data collection, it is a descriptive survey of the correlation type. The statistical population of the research consists of all the librarians of the public libraries of the country in the number of 7000 people, and 364 people were selected as a sample using Cochran's formula. To collect information from questionnaires Web knowledge sharing, Taherkhani, Tahmasbi and Ghiasi (2022), Knowledge Entrepreneurship (Skrzeszewski, 2006) and information technology acceptance (Chandra and karippurnanda, 2018) were used. The face, content and construct validity of the instrument was confirmed and their reliability was also calculated and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. SPSS22 and PLS3.8 software were used to analyze the results.
Findings: The findings of the research showed that the coefficient of influence of web knowledge sharing on employee knowledge creation and acceptance of information technology is 0.554 and 0.415, respectively; The coefficient of the adoption of information technology on the knowledge entrepreneurship of employees was calculated as 0.887 and the coefficient of the adoption of information technology in the relationship between web knowledge sharing and knowledge entrepreneurship was calculated as 0.583. It has become bigger than 1.96. Also, the findings showed that web knowledge sharing has a positive and significant effect on knowledge creation and information technology acceptance based on the TOE model of employees, and the mediating role of information technology acceptance based on the TOE model in the effect of web knowledge sharing on knowledge creation of employees is confirmed.
Discussion: According to the findings of the research, it can be concluded that the development of knowledge entrepreneurship requires the creation and strengthening of infrastructures such as web knowledge sharing and information technology, and they should be viewed as an interconnected process. And it is necessary to be taken seriously by libraries.
Afsaneh Shahrabi; Safiyeh Tahmasebi Limooni; Seyed Aliasghar Razavi
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Purpose: The purpose was to identify the Effective Factors on the Commercialization of Research Projects in Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran.Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the Mixed method with the exploratory design. The society in the qualitative section ...
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Purpose: The purpose was to identify the Effective Factors on the Commercialization of Research Projects in Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran.Methods: This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the Mixed method with the exploratory design. The society in the qualitative section (17 experts with a targeted sampling and in a quantitative section, 318 people selected by random sampling from the Stratified and formula of Cochran were selected from 1851 people. A questionnaire with 5 factors (individual, environmental, context, structural and content) and 74 questions used. Face and content validity confirmed by experts and their construct validity was more than 0.5 with a factor load, and their reliability was 0.91. The data analyzed using descriptive statistics from mean and standard deviation. In the section of inferential statistics were used Kendall's tau coefficient test, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Findings: There is a positive and significant relationship between commercialization with all five factors individual, environmental, context, structural and content. The content dimension with the factor load of 0.873 is the highest impact and the environmental dimension with 0.663 has the least. There is a strong positive and significant relationship between the dimensions with their components.Conclusion: There is a positive and significant relationship between commercialization with all five factors. The results showed that content factor (factor load was 0.761), structural (0.735), underlying (0.652), individual (0.530) and environmental (0.439) have the highest significant role in commercializing of the results of scientific researches.
zohreh afshar; safiyeh tahmasebi limooni; mitra ghiasi
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Purpose: Since information search behaviors are a reflection of the needs of users, it is important to identify and understand them in the design of the proper user interface. Therefore, the purpose is to determine the level support for environment of the user interface of databases from the Meho and ...
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Purpose: Since information search behaviors are a reflection of the needs of users, it is important to identify and understand them in the design of the proper user interface. Therefore, the purpose is to determine the level support for environment of the user interface of databases from the Meho and Tibbo model.Method: This is an applied research. The method was performed using Webometrics with an Heuristic Evaluation Method. The statistical population consisted of 100 Ph.D. students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and a census sampling method. Data Collection tools the check list consists of four elements derived from the Meho and Tibbo model.Findings: showed, Support the user interface for the Science direct and Clinical Key databases in Meho and Tibbo model is higher than the average (2.08, 07.07) (2).The interface environment support for the Sprinter has been reported to be modest (2/01) and the Wiley is less than average (1.79). The ranking of the support these Databases from the model showed that, the Databases Science Direct, Clinical key, Springer, and Wiley won the first to fourth place with a score of 2.91, 2.84, 2.55, 1.71., the database user interface support for the Meho and Tibbo models is moderate.Results: the use of these elements in the design of the interface environment can have a great impact on the optimization of the interface of the database.
Abbas Hosseinzadeh Bandaghiri; Safiyeh Tahmasebi Limooni; Ali Asghar Razavi
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AbstractObjective: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of technological innovation capabilities on staff professional development by mediating individual knowledge management among staff of public libraries in Iran.Methodology: The statistical population of this study consisted of 6171 ...
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AbstractObjective: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of technological innovation capabilities on staff professional development by mediating individual knowledge management among staff of public libraries in Iran.Methodology: The statistical population of this study consisted of 6171 public librarians all over the country. Using Cochran formula, 362 individuals were considered as sample and 382 questionnaires were distributed and collected due to sampling error (0.05). To collect the data, three researcher-made technological innovation questionnaires, personal knowledge management by Mohyuddin and Azirovani (2007) and Nova Staff Professional Development (2008) were used.Findings: According to the findings, the impact of technological innovation capabilities on staff professional development and personal knowledge management was 0.394 and 0.466, respectively. The coefficient of impact of personal knowledge management on staff professional development was calculated 0.429. The calculated test statistic value was greater than 1.96 in all directions (P
safiyeh tahmasebi limooni; Foroozan tabibian
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Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explain and design the university librarian's competency model and its impact on improving the performance of libraries. In order to achieve this goal, the debate of the role of library competencies based on the four standards of competence ...
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Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explain and design the university librarian's competency model and its impact on improving the performance of libraries. In order to achieve this goal, the debate of the role of library competencies based on the four standards of competence of libraries (technical, team and interpersonal skills, leadership and management, and librarians), will improve their performance which directly affects the vital activities of these libraries. So, it can be said that by rationally investing in this sector and moving from coherent competency models and considering appropriate competency mechanisms, the benefits of improving performance, a clear reflection of expectations for roles, providing conjunct and authoritative information for human resource planning in libraries, connecting and coordination of development activities in libraries with its strategies, increased librarians' motivation, Improving and developing capabilities by providing specific recommendations, supporting and strengthening supervisors relationships with subordinates by quantifying of performance management, targeting human resource management activities or libraries, and providing a common framework and language in the organization to implement employee development talent development strategies Libraries will benefit and this will not happen. Unless by exploring and recognizing the requirements of the competencies of the libraries and the suitable implementation of competency assessment and the development of optimal utilization of libraries by identifying the potential and actual capabilities of their staff.
Methodology: This research is applied in terms of its purpose and data collection is survey-analytical, and analytical is correlative methods. The statistical population of the study consisted of 43 employees of the Central Library of Islamic Azad Universities of the region who were surveyed. The sampling method was a census type. The data collection tool in this study is a questionnaire. To assess the competency variable, 37 statement for the competence of Iranian Tabibian and Fahimeh Babalhavaeji (2014) libraries were used. For the quality of performance variable, the questionnaire of 18 Statements of Shandy and others (2013) has been used. Considering the Cronbach's alpha and the reliability of the combination, which is greater than 0.7 in all research components. Therefore, the reliability of the research questionnaire is confirmed. Also, the AVE value of all research indicators is higher than the value of 0.5, the convergent validity of the questionnaire is acceptable, considering that the extracted mean square variance for each variable is greater than the correlation of that variable with other variables, therefore the diagnostic validity of the research questionnaire is also confirmed. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-22 software and Structural Equation Modeling software based on Smart-PLS software.
Findings: The average for competency of the affiliated libraries is 4.04. The highest mean of competency is related to the managerial competency and leadership (4.06). The lowest average of the technical competence component is 3.9. Also, the results of one-sample t-test showed that there is a significant difference between the expected level (2.5) and its competency and its components and the mean level obtained in all cases. Data from the evaluation of the current status of quality of performance in libraries also indicated that the average status of quality of performance in libraries was higher than the expected average (2.5), (3.86). A single-sample t-student test also showed a significant difference between the expected mean and the mean calculated (significance level of 0.05). Also, the significant results of the bivariate regression analysis of librarian competence assessment and performance improvement showed that 50.3% of the changes in performance improvement can be explained and evaluated by assessing the competence of libraries. The value of t statistic for the significance of the variable regression coefficient of librarian competence assessment is 17.096 and greater than the critical value of 1.96, which shows the effect of the librarian competency assessment variable on performance improvement in libraries.
Finally, a meaningful statistic exists between the competency components of libraries and performance improvement in all cases larger than the value (1.96) and indicating that the relationship between all competency and performance improvement is significant. Regarding the path coefficients and the positivity of the effect of variables on each other, it is concluded there is a direct relationship of evaluating competency components with functional improvement in the library.
Discussion: Data analysis showed that the improvement of libraries 'performance is influenced by their competency assessment model so that by increasing the level of competency in all dimensions, libraries' performance and, therefore, the quality of their services will improve. Therefore, managers need to have an active and dynamic library to provide high-quality services that such high-quality services need to utilize competency in the fields of the technical, team and interpersonal, managerial and librarians. Therefore, in order to maintain a meaningful relationship between explaining the competency of libraries (and its components) and improving the performance of the affiliated libraries, the results of this study are confirmed, the librarian's requirements in this regard should be as follows Be prepared to increase the quality of the services provided. It is necessary to institutionalize the promotion of technical, managerial, team and interpersonal competencies and librarians in libraries.
