The Impacts of Information Technology on Knowledge Management at Agriculture Organization Personnel at Kermanshah Province

The aim of this casual research was to analyze the impacts of information technology impacts on knowledge management of Agriculture Organization personnel at Kermanshah Province. Bukowitz and William's seven sections model include getting, using, learning, contributing, assessing, building/maintaining and discarding was used to assess knowledge management of those personnel. The statistical population consisted of 899 Jihad-Agriculture Organization staff (N=899) among them a number of 269 were randomly selected using Krejcie and Morgan's sampling table. The data collection tool was a questionnaire included both standardized and researcher made questions validated by a group of relevant experts. The reliability of the questions was calculated through ordinal Alpha coefficient (α=0.91). Results showed that there was a significant relationship and correlation between knowledge management and information technology variables. Based on the path analysis results, direct and indirect impacts were observed between all information technology variables and knowledge management. Other words, every single information technology variable had a significant impact on knowledge management that means the more improvement in each information technology variable, the more direct impact on knowledge management of the agricultural staff. The most important external variables affecting on knowledge management were determined as information storage and information transformation respectively