Document Type : Research Paper
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Abstract
In today's world, the only way to creating wealth in organizations and societies is gathering capitals of knowledge. The natural and human capitals turn into wealth when they are with the knowledge capital. Organization power today resets upon possession of knowledge-wealth as well as on taking all-out advantage of the collection of creative competencies of mind which in tum pave the ground for further development and progress. organizations and corporations have come to a conclusion that nothing but knowledge can enable them to gain an advantageous stance in today's world competition. Consequently, the employees of an organization, as the genuine possessors of knowledge as well as vitally important investments of the organization, have attracted immense consideration. The knowledge management, as an instrument can gather the existing knowledge and expands it, and distributes through organization. But, experiences of many of companies regarding knowledge management have failed. This means that not pertinent pattern has been adopted for assessing knowledge management which has been taken into account as a temporary and transitory process.
In this research, influencing factors of knowledge management have elaborated and a model for assessing knowledge management in industrial organizations of Iran has been presented on the basis of these factors. Besides, the level of knowledge management can, too, be identified through the said model. The factors include knowledge exploration, knowledge creation, knowledge exporting, knowledge distribution, knowledge expansion, and knowledge maintenance. Each of these factors further subdivides into other elements.
The research method is surveying and case study. Two large manufactures of automobile industry of Iran, which has credited the highest achievements in the field of knowledge management, have been singled out as the subject of research. By ascertaining relevant information from experts of the two large manufactures as well as through carrying statistical viewing of the data thus the final analysis and scrutiny conducted and subsequently necessary conclusions and suggestions submitted so as the aforementioned model could be able to demonstrate its practicality.
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