Abstract
<p>Universities because of the importance and position they play in the every countries’ socio-economic development, require attention to personnel social capital at the university, because the social capital, makes effective knowledge management possible.</p><p>With respect to the importance of social and human capital and knowledge management, the present study was done to explore the relationship between social capital and knowledge management with emphasis on the human capital.<strong> </strong></p><p>This research is survey- descriptive of correlation type and the required data were collected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province.</p><p>In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.</p>
Highlights
Considering the above mentioned information, this study investigates the role of social capital in the creation and development of knowledge management with emphasis on human capital in Hormozgan Payame Noor University
The findings of their study shows that there is a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management, and organizations with higher levels of social capital have more knowledge management compared with organizations with lower levels of social capital
The results of the studies done by khanifar et al (2011) shows that there is a significant relationship between components of knowledge management and social capital
Summary
Universities are the type of the social systems which are the information stimulant force and are known as thinking commanders of communities. Social capital is an effective factor in the direction of the transfer of knowledge among personnel in organizations and helps them have a better relationship with others as a result of the necessary knowledge they have acquired Another factor in the establishment of knowledge management is manpower. The main aim of the present study, is to determine the relationship between social capital and knowledge management at the Payame Noor University. - determining the relationship between social capital and knowledge management components (creation of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, capture of knowledge, transferring of knowledge, application of knowledge) at Payame Noor University. - determining the relationship between variables such as the age, gender, education degree, years of service, employment situation, job category and knowledge management
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