Effect of organizational factors on knowledge management in education: A case study in Mazandaran Province, Departments of Education

Culture influences all the organizations activities. On the other hand, due to the role and importance of knowledge management in obtaining competitive advantages, understanding the amount of support of organizational culture, especially dominant dimension of culture, is among strategies of knowledge management which are so much important and critical. For this purpose the current study has been conducted on managers and staff of West Mazandaran province Departments of Education. Based on Cochrane relationship, 385 managers and staff of the mentioned departments have been selected randomly. The type of research is applied and is descriptive and survey from the point of view of data collection manner. The measuring tool is standard questionnaire of organizational culture factors and standard questionnaire of knowledge management which validity have been confirmed through content analysis by experts and their reliability have been confirmed with the use of Cronbach's alpha. The results of structural models fit between the dimensions of knowledge management and organizational culture indicate that there is a significant relationship between organizational culture dimensions and knowledge management in West Mazandaran province Departments of Education and hence the effectiveness of organizational culture on knowledge management is accepted. Also three dimensions of innovation, job challenge and communications among all the organizational culture dimensions have the most effect on knowledge management process, which indicates the importance of these elements. Finally, with determining the effective factors on knowledge management the necessary recommendations in line with knowledge management process implementation have been provided

Effect of organizational factors on knowledge management in education: A case study in Mazandaran Province, Departments of Education

Culture influences all the organizations activities. On the other hand, due to the role and importance of knowledge management in obtaining competitive advantages, understanding the amount of support of organizational culture, especially dominant dimension of culture, is among strategies of knowledge management which are so much important and critical. For this purpose the current study has been conducted on managers and staff of West Mazandaran province Departments of Education. Based on Cochrane relationship, 385 managers and staff of the mentioned departments have been selected randomly. The type of research is applied and is descriptive and survey from the point of view of data collection manner. The measuring tool is standard questionnaire of organizational culture factors and standard questionnaire of knowledge management which validity have been confirmed through content analysis by experts and their reliability have been confirmed with the use of Cronbach's alpha. The results of structural models fit between the dimensions of knowledge management and organizational culture indicate that there is a significant relationship between organizational culture dimensions and knowledge management in West Mazandaran province Departments of Education and hence the effectiveness of organizational culture on knowledge management is accepted. Also three dimensions of innovation, job challenge and communications among all the organizational culture dimensions have the most effect on knowledge management process, which indicates the importance of these elements. Finally, with determining the effective factors on knowledge management the necessary recommendations in line with knowledge management process implementation have been provided

Knowledge management in public university: Empirical relationships between learning organization and knowledge management process of tacit knowledge

Universities have long been recognised as avenues for teaching and learning, research and discovery, as well as providers of services to the society through the application of knowledge. To strive for academic excellence, it is imperative for public universities to become a learning organization (LO).This can be done by integrating the conceptual relationship between learning organization and knowledge management process (KMP) to enhance the academic excellence of the public universities. Hence, this paper attempts to develop an empirical research model which examines the relationship between learning organisation and knowledge management process of tacit knowledge in a public university in Malaysia. The objective of this research project is to empirically investigate the conceptual relationship between the seven dimensions of the LO and the transfer process of tacit knowledge through knowledge management (KM) concept.A survey questionnaire was employed as the main instrument to collect data from the academicians in this university.The empirical findings of this study provide an initial step forward in identifying the significant conceptual relationship between the relevant dimensions of a learning organisation and the effective knowledge management process of tacit knowledge which can drive the future value for academic excellence of a public university

Knowledge Management Task Complexity In Emergency Management: An Instrument

While there has been a rich body of literature on knowledge management, little research has been reported that defines the dimensions and operationalization of the complexity of knowledge management tasks. Based on literature reviews and field study observations, we conceptualize knowledge management task complexity as consisting of six dimensions: component complexity, interactive complexity, task novelty, task non-routineness, task difficulty, and lack of task information. Using a systematic instrument development process with interviews, observations and survey data obtained at Miami-Dade County Emergency Operations Center (MD-EOC) in Florida, we developed measures of the six dimensions for knowledge management tasks in the context of emergency management. The final instrument demonstrated sufficient reliability and construct validity. Implications of our conceptualization and measures of knowledge management tasks to research and practice as well as directions for future research are discussed

The Influence Of Human Capital On The Innovativeness Of Firms

Despite the importance of innovation and innovativeness within today’s economy, we know little about how intellectual capital of firms can contribute to a superior innovation at the firm’s level. Based on resources and knowledge-based views of firms we developed a hypothesis linking three dimensions of human capital (component of the intellectual capital) and the innovativeness of firms. As a representation of the firm’s innovativeness, we consider the product, process and management innovation. Using a survey from 68 firms working on the auto components sector, established in the Northern of Spain and Northern of Portugal, we found firstly, that innovativeness has two main dimensions, perfectly differentiated, the product-process innovation and the management innovation; secondly that the human capital dimensions (formation and knowledge creation, innovative behave, and incentives to innovation) influences differently each type of innovativeness capacity. We found that the different human capital dimension influences directly, only, the product-process innovativeness. More specifically only the innovative behavior and the incentives to innovation influence the product-process innovativeness. The formation and knowledge creation dimension doesn’t influence directly either the product-process innovativeness or the management innovativeness. Moreover, none of the human capital dimensions considered influence the management innovativeness directly. These results highlight the importance of human capital on innovative performance, and it allows identification of  the most important dimensions that influence directly the different innovativeness capacities and more broadly, highlight the value of intellectual capital as a competitive advantage in contemporary times

Corporate Mission and Vision and Customer Knowledge Management for Increasing Competitive Advantages

Customer knowledge is highly valued in today’s business environment where supply is more than demand and firms are trying their best to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Building customer knowledge base through knowledge management provides firms with strategic weapon for customer value creation, average level of customer knowledge enhancement, cost and time reduction, service quality improvement and quicker customer knowledge creation. The main objective of this study is to propose a conceptual framework for exploring the relatedness of the three dimensions: resource provision, knowledge management process and customer knowledge performance. The proposed conceptual framework emphasizes the link between knowledge management with corporate mission and vision and that they set out the direction of corporate knowledge management. This study takes a kitchenware manufacturer and seller in Taiwan as an example to perform a field study to collect the concerned data for exploring the expressed relatedness among the three dimensions of the proposed framework as reported by the respondents in the case company. From the responses of the surveyed case company, it is also demonstrated how customer knowledge can be enhanced through resource provision and knowledge management and that people who surely understand their corporate mission and vision can outperform in knowledge management process and in customer knowledge performance compared with people who do not in this particular setting

Three dimensional norm-based knowledge management for knowledge intensive business service organizations: an organizational semiotics perspective

The utilization of knowledge enables knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) organizations, such as law firms, to perform and deliver value to their customers. Organizational semiotics views norms as knowledge that are developed through practical experience of human agents in organizations. Building on organizational semiotics and knowledge management, this paper proposes a three dimensional norm-based knowledge management (3DNKM) framework for legal sector in the UK. Abductive reasoning is adopted for guiding the research process in this paper. The three identified contextual dimensions of knowledge include customer, practice area and lawyer. For each dimension, there are informal, formal and technical norms establishing context-based knowledge. The proposed framework provides a way for KIBS organizations to manage the intertwined norms from the three dimensions and various levels

THE COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONAL ECONOMIES IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR POWER SUPREMACY

Mankind is in a continuous movement process, and power moves from a country to another, each of these trying to maintain supremacy. The struggle for power is very tough because to counterbalance the main competitors, knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses is imperative. The remaking of world order, on the basis of clashes between cultures and civilizations, is very well captured and illustrated by Samuel Huntington.competitiveness, economic structures, cultural dimensions, power distance, masculinity, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, management systems

Managing Employee Resistance to Process Innovation Case: The Textile and Garment industry in Vietnam

This research deepens and expands the study of different antecedents leading to the re-sistance to process innovation within the firms. It concentrates on analysing the correlations between four independent variables: employee’s commitments, strength toward the existing habits, self-esteem, knowledge management and three dimensions of resistance of employ-ees in response to the proposed innovations: cognition, emotion and behaviour. The empiri-cal study was conducted in the context of the Textile and Garment industry in Vietnam by utilizing a sample of 96 employees working in the enterprises undergoing the changes in manufacturing process. The outcomes of the study confirmed the influence of loyalty to the organization (a construct of employee’s commitment), strength toward the existing habits and self-esteem on three dimensions of resistance to innovation. In terms of knowledge management, only the organizational memory construct affects to the opposed thought, emo-tion and behaviour of employees while the knowledge acquisition element only impacts on the behavioural perspective of the resistance to innovation. Likewise, essential practical implications are offered for the company’s board of management when they deploy changes in business processes

University Solidarity Management: Weaving Possibilities on Decolonial Terrain

In the perspective of discussing a university management proposal that places an alternative epistemological conception and understands the multidimensionality of human beings and social systems (as a critique of economic instrumentality) and the multidimensionality of the educational phenomenon, this article presents a theoretical synthesis, an essay of idea, in the sense of proposing a model of solidarity management, in the perspective of its dimensions (Cosmopolitan Rationality; Multidimensional Model of Administration Management; Intercultural Translation). The solidary management of the university centralizes the debate on interculturalityfrom the perspective of emancipation, while activating the reflective process on how to strategically operationalize actions that are guided by an integrative rationality and coordinate the dimensions of the educational phenomenon, in this case: culture, politics, pedagogy and economics. It is in the scope of a democratization of knowledge that this management advances from the “societal” management, as it comprehends a perspective on participation that qualifies the knowledge and practices of social agents in building proposals as credible, and the social organization should focus its efforts and trigger the experiences of the subjects so that the intercultural translation process incorporates comprehensive and purposeful practices within symbolic interactions