Habibollah Ranaei Kordshouli; Moslem Alimohammadlo; Mohsen Jajarmizadeh; Abbas Abbasi; Ahmad Allahyari Bouzanjani
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This research aims to design a model that can illustrate and analyze the features of work culture in different levels such as a specific industry, regional or national. For this aim, using the content analysis on academic experts’ opinion, scientific and religious text, the values and norms that ...
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This research aims to design a model that can illustrate and analyze the features of work culture in different levels such as a specific industry, regional or national. For this aim, using the content analysis on academic experts’ opinion, scientific and religious text, the values and norms that are representative of work culture in Iranian society were identified. Using the force field analyses theory, findings were analyzed, and it is founded that deriving and restraining forces are two factors that forms the Iranian work culture. Furthermore, it is was founded that externally, these forces are negatively correlated to each other but internally, their attributes are negatively interrelated. Therefore, reinforcement of each attribute can lead to increase of other similar attributes and finally, weakening the other deriving or restraining factor. As a general conclusion, it can be said that to attain ideal work culture, two types of positive and negative actions are necessary. In negative actions, managers’ decisions are toward weakening the restraining forces and in positive actions, toward reinforcement of deriving forces.
seyed mohammad zahedi; ali entezari harsini
Volume 18, Issue 56 , January 2008, , Pages 45-70
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Knowledge culture as one of the most important factors affecting on knowledge management, describes values and beliefs about creating, sharing and implementing knowledge. It plays a basic role in successfulness of knowledge management. Hence, assessing knowledge culture, creating and reinforcing of relevant ...
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Knowledge culture as one of the most important factors affecting on knowledge management, describes values and beliefs about creating, sharing and implementing knowledge. It plays a basic role in successfulness of knowledge management. Hence, assessing knowledge culture, creating and reinforcing of relevant values and activities to knowledge management is very important. In this research, following an extensive review of literature of knowledge management, dimension of knowledge culture categorized in three general areas of creating, sharing and implementing as well as criteria of: personal beliefs, commitment, knowledge sharing as a source of power, freedom of action v.s. control, and senior management support. Based on these criteria an instrument for assessing knowledge culture was composed and used for measurement and comparison of knowledge culture in three organizations. According to the results, concluding remarks for enhancing dimension of knowledge culture were made at the end.