The Impact of Social Capital Dimensions on Implementation of Knowledge Management
Subject Areas :Gh. Abbaspour Esfeden 1 , Asghar Moshabbaki 2 , Mahdi Hadian 3
1 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران جنوب
2 - استاد دانشگاه تربیت مدرس
3 - کارشناس ارشد مدیریت صنعتی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران جنوب
Keywords: Social capital, Knowledge Management, Implementation of knowledge management. ,
Abstract :
Start the threshold of the third millennium, age of applying traditional management’s method will finish and new horizons will enter in the form of learning and virtual organizations. In learning and knowledge creating organizations, creating of new knowledge and innovations is not a specialty work but it is a type of communal behavior and members of organization learn with each other how to learn and every one is a creative person in it. These types of organizations are idealistic and desirable. But how can achieve to these organizations and how can design them? What programs and politics should be exerted so that the organizations shift from current situation to desirable situation? Primary attempts in the most of organization in this field face with this challenge that make slow its applicable influence development in spite of investment on knowledge management. major reason for this problem is lower of organizations readiness level for accepting and usage knowledge management .So, having correct understanding from amount of this readiness consider necessary for correct orientation of initiative attempt and formulating appropriate strategies. Various and numerous factors have role in achievement of knowledge management implementation. One of these factors is social capital. Therefore in this research we want to make use of social capital for reason of increasing of organizational readiness for implementation of knowledge management that causes sharing better knowledge, revival of organizational knowledge, creating confidence based and cooperation based relationship, cooperative spirit, helping education, increasing activities associated with organizational stability and common understanding. This is an applied research and the method of doing this research is correlation. Statistical population of this research is senior managers and experts and middle managers and Experts in the middle of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Company. Findings of this research show that in this company, there is a positive and significant correlation between social capital and organizational readiness for implementation of knowledge management. In clearer words, with increasing social capital in organization, amount of readiness for implementation of knowledge management has increased in dimension of organizational culture, organizational infra – structure, change content and supporting change.
