Role of Knowledge Management in Empowerment of Agriculture Organization’s Experts in Ilam Province, Iran
الموضوعات :Alireza Poursaeed 1 , هدی اکبری پور 2
1 - Islamic Azad university.Ilam Branch
2 - دانش آموخته
الکلمات المفتاحية: Knowledge management, Experts, Agricultural Organization, empowerment, Ilam County,
ملخص المقالة :
The purpose of this research was to determine knowledge management in the empowerment of the experts of Agricultural Organization in Ilam County of Iran. The statistical population was composed of all employees with the organizational positions of expert or higher in Agricultural Organization of Ilam (N=150). A self-designed questionnaire was used as data collection tool whose face and content validities were confirmed by a panel of experts and whose reliability was estimated to be 0.89 by Cronbach’s alpha. Data were analyzed by SPSS20 in two groups of descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of variations) and inferential statistics (Spearman test of correlation and multiple regression analysis). Results of regression analysis showed positive, significant relationship of knowledge exchange, knowledge generation, and number of training courses with people’s empowerment so that they, together, accounted for 40% of the variations of dependent variable.
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