Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing among Personnel of Agricultural Extension and Education Organization in Iranian Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture

Pezeshki Rad, Gh.; Alizadeh, N.; Zamani Miandashti, N.; Shabanali Fami, H.

Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing among Personnel of Agricultural Extension and Education Organization in Iranian Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture

Authors

Gh. Pezeshki Rad ¹

N. Alizadeh ¹

N. Zamani Miandashti ²

H. Shabanali Fami ³

¹ Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.

² Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran.

³ Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Islamic Republic of Iran.

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing knowledge
sharing among the personnel of Agricultural Extension and Education Organization in
the Iranian Ministry of Jihad-e Agriculture. A survey method was employed for the
study, and 110 personnel randomly selected as a sample out of 140 who were busy
working in the organization. Data was collected through a questionnaire employed as the
tool of the study. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined as 0.93. The
personnel were of the belief that knowledge sharing happened in their organization to a
large extent. According to the study, there existed significant relationships between the
factors of social trust, relational social capital and attitude toward knowledge sharing,
and the dependent variable of knowledge sharing. A stepwise regression analysis
indicated that relational social capital and attitude towards knowledge sharing could
explain about 37 percent in the variations of knowledge sharing.

Keywords

Attitude

knowledge Sharing

relational social capital

Social trust