Introducing a Model of Human Resource Empowerment in Knowledge-based Defense Organizations (Studied Case: Aja Self-sufficiency Jihad and Research Department)

The success of knowledge-based organizations depends on the empowerment of its knowledge-based human resources. The more capable these organizations are in terms of human resources, the more successful they will be in achieving their goals. The purpose of this article is to design and explain the model of human resource empowerment in the

Department of Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad of Iran's Army. Methodology The research is developmental in terms of purpose and practical in terms of results, and it is qualitative and quantitative in terms of the type of data. The participants of the qualitative part include scientific experts and experts in the field of human resources management and executive experts of AJA's Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Department, who were selected by a non-probability judgmental and purposeful sampling method, and in the quantitative part, they also include knowledge workers who were selected by a random sampling method. In the qualitative part, the data collection tools included semi-structured interviews, and in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. In the quantitative part, thematic analysis was used to analyze the data, and in the quantitative part, structural equation modeling was used to validate the model.

The model of empowerment of the target society included the main categories of knowledge empowerment, professional empowerment, functional empowerment, moral empowerment, social empowerment, military empowerment, and cognitive empowerment, and the relationship between them and their constituent subcategories have been confirmed quantitatively.

The professional nature of human resources working in knowledge-based defense organizations makes their empowerment program multidimensional and comprehensive. The model presented in this research can be used as a practical guide for developing human resources development programs in this field.