The Verification and Identification of the Influential Factors on Organizational Knowledge Sharing Process among Staff of Mazandaran Province’s Education and Training Administration with Structural Equation Model

The purpose of present research is verification and identification of influential factors on knowledge sharing process among Education and Training Administration's staff of Mazandaran. This study, in terms of dada collection, is an analytical-descriptive study, and in terms of research objectives, is an applied study. Statistical population of the present study includes 387 Education and Training Administration's staff of Mazandaran that 172 staffs are selected as statistical sample. For collecting data, we used the standard questionnaires which were used by (Jacobs & Roodt, 2007), and data analysis so performed by SPSS and LISREL software.
Findings: The results of structural equation modeling showed that all 5 studied variables such as gathering, self-efficacy, knowledge presentation, organizational climate, and behavioral control both directly and indirectly influenced on organizational knowledge sharing process. So the results of assumptions testing showed that all variables are influential and verifier of knowledge sharing process separately. The knowledge-based age in which the knowledge is counted as the most important asset of organizations, requires to a distinctive management approach towards the organizational and personnel problems. The change of the nature of organizational activities into the knowledge activities causes increasingly importance of applying knowledge management and it's sharing within organizations. Therefore, successful organizations continuously evaluate and measure the extent of production, dissemination, exchange, and utilization of knowledge among their employees by different methods through which they are able to attain to the alternatives of achieving organizational goals.