Structural modeling of factors affecting knowledge sharing among faculty members

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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1 Corresponding Author: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

3 Master's degree in Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Knowledge sharing among faculty members of universities and higher education centers is very important; Because it activates them in a competitive process in order to create and produce knowledge and finally share it. The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the role and extent of influence of various factors in knowledge sharing among university faculty members and based on the theory of planned behavior. The approach of quantitative research and its descriptive method is causal and cross-sectional in terms of time. The statistical population of this research included all faculty members of the Non-Governmental University of Science and Culture in the number of 103 people, and the required sample size among them was determined as 81 people based on Cochran's formula. The classification sampling method is based on the selection of university faculties as a class.In order to collect data, the questionnaires of knowledge sharing, organizational atmosphere, intention, attitude and mental norm of Bok et al. (2005), the perceived behavior control questionnaire of Al-Suyidi (2014), the trust questionnaire of Kim and Joe (2008) and the leadership questionnaire of Ridge (2005) were used. has been The method of structural equation modeling in the method of partial least squares has been used in order to analyze the data. The findings of the research have shown that from the point of view of faculty members, the significant relationship between organizational climate and knowledge sharing and also the significant relationship between intention, attitude and mental norm with knowledge sharing have been confirmed.

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Strategic Management of Organizational Knowledge
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 18
September 2022
Pages 37-67

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  • Receive Date: 16 August 2022
  • Revise Date: 31 August 2022
  • Accept Date: 31 August 2022

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