Proposing a Model for investigating the factors individual, technological, and organizational affecting on organizational knowledge sharing emphasizing the mediating role of motivational factors in Fars Industrial Estates Company

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ABSTRACT: One of the most important and most common processes in different structures introduced in knowledge management is knowledge sharing, making people motivated to share their knowledge in organizations and improve knowledge sharing among individuals in order to create competitive advantage; are of the most important priorities of knowledge management in the world. Sharing the knowledge effectively between members of an organization leads to cost reduction in producing the knowledge, and to ensure dissemination of best working practices in the organization, thus; it enables organizations to solve their issues and problems themselves. The increasing importance of knowledge sharing for the competitiveness of organizations introduces the identification of factors influencing on it as one of the most important aspects of knowledge management in organizations, and with a management perspective also introduces the factors influencing knowledge sharing in organizations; the effect of these factors on organizational knowledge sharing in Fars Industrial Estates company are then studied through components including satisfaction attained by helping others, self-efficacy of the knowledge, the application of information and communication technologies, organizational bonuses, internal support, and organizational mechanisms among the employees of the company (total of 160 employees). The data collection tool is a combination of four questionnaires. In addition to the inferential statistics the Path analysis method was used to investigate the hypothesis of the research, for the demographic features investigation and the response to demographic hypotheses of the study; the independent group t-test and the one way variance analysis were used.The results of this study indicate that factors influencing organizational knowledge sharing have a direct and significant impact on organizational knowledge sharing, furthermore; affect organizational knowledge sharing significantly and indirectly through motivational factors. This means that individual, technological, and organizational factors by an increased willingness to share knowledge will have a very important role in promoting the level of organizational knowledge sharing despite the atmosphere of confidence and the attitude toward learning.

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Fatemeh Rezazadeh and Majid Amouzad Khalili

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Fatemeh Rezazadeh and Majid Amouzad Khalili (2016). Proposing a Model for investigating the factors individual, technological, and organizational affecting on organizational knowledge sharing emphasizing the mediating role of motivational factors in Fars Industrial Estates Company. International Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Research., 7(1), 459-467. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-112604