Identification of the Relationship between Knowledge Management Processes and Social Security Staff Empowering (Case study: Social security organization of Ardabil Province)
Subject Areas : Business Management
Jalal
Rezaye Noor
1
(Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Qom)
Hamidreza
Zarghami
2
(Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology)
Yaser
Mmshi
3
(Master of Science in Information Technology Management, Mehr Alborz Institute of Higher Education)
Keywords: Knowledge Management, knowledge management processes, Staff empowering, Social security organization of Ardabil province,
Abstract :
This research has been developed to identify the relationship betweenknowledge management processes and social security organization staffempowering in Ardabil province .In fact , the major and basic question ofthe research is , ((Is there any relationship between knowledge managementprocesses and staff empowering in the social security organization ofArdabil Province)). In order to analyze the question, knowledgemanagement factors based on Lawson model were analyzed. Spreitzermodel has also been used to analyze the empowering situation. The Standardquestionnaire for knowledge management processe and its factors as anindependent variable includes 24 questions and that of empowering as adependent variable includes 15 questions. Content validity procedure andviews of university professors were used for validity test. The reliabilitycoefficient of the questionnaires was 80% and because Cronbach alpha ofthe questionnaires was more than 70%, both questionnaires had the neededreliability. The testees are 140 members of social security organization thathave been chosen by random sampling procedure. Structural equation modelhas also been used for analyzing the data. The results show that there is ameaningful relationship between knowledge management and social securityorganization staff empowering in Ardabil Province.
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Spreitzer, G.,M.(1995), Psychological empowerment in the workplace: dimensions measurement, and validation .The Academy of management Journal. 38 (5),1442-1465.
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Whetten, D.A, Cameron, K.S. (1998), developing management skills. NewYork: Addison – Wesley, Wheelan.
Wu, Wei-Wen., Lee, Yu-Ting. (2007), Selecting Knowledge Management strategies by Using the Analytic Network process. Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 32, No.2, pp 841-847.
