Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• samira soleimanpour ¹
• Abdolhossein Farajpahlou ²
• Hossein Dehdarirad ³

¹ MLS, Student, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

² Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

³ PhD Candidate of Medical Library and Information Science, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the views of the faculty members and graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz on the knowledge sharing infrastructure in this university.
Methodology: As a descriptive study, it was focused on a survey that was taken from a study by Pourserajian, Olia and Soltani Abadi (2013) as well as Soleimanpour (2015) and was used as the data collection tool. The research population consisted of all the faculty members and the graduate students of the SCU, of which 204 and 320 were selected respectively by stratified random sampling divided by gender as well as by faculty.
Findings: The findings of the study revealed a consensus among faculty members and students about the existence of five basic components of knowledge sharing, i.e., information and communication technologies, management strategies, structural-administrative factors, cultural structure and human factors. However, in details, there were some differences between the faculty members and the graduate students in regards with the components of these infrastructures.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that at the time of the study, the state of knowledge sharing infrastructure in Shahid Chamran University was somehow moderate, meaning that if the implementation of knowledge management in this university is taken more serious by both, the university officials and the KM Center of Excellence based at this university, the KM practice will be a relative success here.

Keywords

• Knowledge sharing
• Shahid Chamran Uni
• barresi