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Background/aim. Employees, as the most important assets of an organization, acquire a great deal of experience, skills and knowledge throughout the time period they work for the organization. If their skills and technical knowledge are not documented properly, they will be lost as soon as employees leave ...
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Background/aim. Employees, as the most important assets of an organization, acquire a great deal of experience, skills and knowledge throughout the time period they work for the organization. If their skills and technical knowledge are not documented properly, they will be lost as soon as employees leave the organization. Therefore, documentation is necessary in order to preserve this invaluable knowledge, avoid duplication and repeated mistakes occurred in the past.Thus, this research elaborates on the role of organizational knowledge management as an essential tool for sharing the gained experience with others.Methodology. This research is developmental applied research with qualitative approach and it was conducted using thematic analysis method.This method includes a semi-structured interview with 18 researchers conducting research projects at satellite research institute under the supervision of Iran Space Agency.Findings. The projects contain knowledge that is a combination of “know why”, “know what”, “know who” and “know how”. A large amount of this knowledge is the tacit knowledge. Most of this tacit knowledge is not reflected in the project documents.Conclusion. Considering the necessity of documentation within the knowledge transfer process and its important role in knowledge management; some steps need to be taken in order to make the knowledge sharing an organizational culture in institute, Such steps include holding introductory seminars for experts and managers to explain the importance of preserving and sharing the knowledge, conducting training classes for technical documentation,focusing on the intellectual property of writers,to establish and increase trust among the Institute personnel.
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samira soleimanpour; Abdolhossein Farajpahlou; Hossein Dehdarirad
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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, ...
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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.
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Ali Biranvand; Ahmad Shaabani; Morteza Mohammadi Ostani
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Purpose: The present paper aims to investigate factors affecting knowledge-sharing among Fars Province public libraries’ librarians in terms of combina-tion of models Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and introducing a model of predicting their behavior.Research Methodology: ...
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Purpose: The present paper aims to investigate factors affecting knowledge-sharing among Fars Province public libraries’ librarians in terms of combina-tion of models Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and introducing a model of predicting their behavior.Research Methodology: The research is of practical type, and questionnaire has been used as the data gathering tool. Content validity has been used in order to determine the measurement tool validity and Lisrel software pack-age has been used for data analysis. The statistical population of the research includes 180 librarians working in Fars Province’s public libraries and select-ed using stratified random sampling method.Results revealed that most of variable model Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model on knowledge-sharing are effect and a casual relationship. Education and consultation programs improve employees’ performance.These should be designed based on employees’ ability and type of activity. The technology-job proportionality provides the opportunity to make more use of a technology thus improving the user’s performance. Existence of mutual trust between the employees and the organization, on the other hand, causes both sides to tend more to make knowledge-sharing. Creation of positive mental thinking in employees’ minds has improved their mentality towards their activities and complexities of their use of knowledge-sharing system, at the same time, increasing job effectiveness and speed of doing duties. Conclusion: Considering the importance of knowledge-sharing as the most fundamental function and the most important challenge of knowledge man-agement, the current work presents a casual model for predicting the factors affecting knowledge-sharing in public libraries.
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Fatemeh Pazooki; Mohsen Haji Zeinolabedini
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the aspects of using RDA rules in institutional knowledge management process. Knowledge management includes the total procedures needed for management of organizational knowledge. Regarding the importance of information organization elements, this ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the aspects of using RDA rules in institutional knowledge management process. Knowledge management includes the total procedures needed for management of organizational knowledge. Regarding the importance of information organization elements, this research is to examine knowledge management category and consider the role of librarians and information science experts in knowledge management.
Methodology: In this research, the role and the function of the modern information organization rules on the promotion and optimization of the knowledge management process have been determined. Furthermore, the represented models at knowledge management cycles and the role of information organization (as an interface at this process) have been studied. Then, the effective descriptive elements on “Nonaka & Takeuchi” model have been identified as one of the prominent models at knowledge management through Resource Description and Access (RDA). Finally, the core elements related to the knowledge management process and the importance of the related concepts have been represented in order to be used at knowledge management cycle of the organization.
Findings: This study showed that organization concept exists in different knowledge management models and focusing on it could improve objective and operating aspects of this models. Also, it seems the RDA helps homogeneity, consistency and better institutional information retrieval in knowledge management process which will happen by using RDA in institutional knowledge repositories.
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Mohamadhossein Ronaghi; Kamran Feyzi; Amin Asadpour
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Knowledge management (KM) is the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organisational knowledge. It refers to a multi-disciplined approach to achieving organisational objectives by making the best use of knowledgeKnowledge has a vital role in achieving organizational goals. ...
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Knowledge management (KM) is the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organisational knowledge. It refers to a multi-disciplined approach to achieving organisational objectives by making the best use of knowledgeKnowledge has a vital role in achieving organizational goals. Knowledge management is a competitive advantage in an organization. Uncertain phenomena can't measure by exact variable. Grey theory has been widely used to solve the uncertainty problems under the discrete data and incomplete information. This research is a descriptive survey. We have presented a new approach to knowledge management that examines the organizational knowledge by using grey system theory. To clarify this process System Group Company is taken as a case. The survey sample population consisted of 280 randomly taken employees and managers of System Group Company. Strategy, structure, employees-roles, information system, knowledge creation, knowledge transfer and availability as seven dimensions of knowledge management were evaluated by Grey theory. An important part of the results revealed knowledge transfer and employees need to attention in System Group Company.
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mahdi moradi; zakiyeh marandi; iman mohseni
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Purpose: The present study attempted to investigate the relationship between the personal knowledge management and job performance of accountants, and tried to examine the role and influence level of personal knowledge management on the accountants’ job performance of different organizations.
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Purpose: The present study attempted to investigate the relationship between the personal knowledge management and job performance of accountants, and tried to examine the role and influence level of personal knowledge management on the accountants’ job performance of different organizations.
Methodology: This research is a descriptive and correlational study. The statistical population consisted of master- degree students in accounting at the Universities of Mashhad and the sample group consisted of 208 people. To collect the data, Dorsey’s personal knowledge management self-assessment questionnaire, and contextual and task performance researcher-made questionnaire were used. Also, for testing hypotheses, correlation analysis and linear regression was applied using SPSS software version 16.
Findings: The results of the study showed positive and significant relationship between personal knowledge management skill and two dimensions of accountants’ task and contextual job performance.
Conclusion: It is concluded that the efforts of universities and organizations to further enhance the knowledge of personal knowledge management is an important step in improving the quality of the services provided by the members of the accounting profession.
