Abstract
Article history: Received June 22, 2013 Received in revised format 28 August 2013 Accepted 25 September 2013 Available online September 27 2013 Universities and institutions of higher education with a professional, special, educational and cultural environment play important roles in the direction towards the effective management of knowledge and space provision for the sharing of knowledge. Faculty members are known as the main elements of the university and they are the mental and intellectual investment banks who share their knowledge under certain conditions. In addition, their knowledge sharing behaviors lead to the success and improvement of individual and organizational operations. Moreover, organizational intelligence is the capacity of the organization to create knowledge and to use it in a strategic way to coordinate and to conform itself to its surroundings. This study examines the impact of organizational intelligence on faculty members' knowledge sharing behaviors. Data collection for qualitative research includes interviews with experts and quantitative research is performed using a questionnaire. The research results show that there was a significant relationship between organizational intelligence and faculty members' knowledge sharing behaviors. Among these dimensions, “knowledge application” influenced other dimensions. On the other hand, “common outcome” had a significant relationship with the “behavioral” dimension and “special and professional activities”. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Knowledge is considered as a valuable asset and as a source of competitive advantage for an organization and in order to succeed in this competitive environment, necessary knowledge should be acquired more effectively than competitors should
Faculty members as the components of the university and the mental and intellectual investment banks share their knowledge under certain conditions (Nonaka et al, 2006)
The elements of knowledge sharing behaviors are diagnosed and determined and in the second phase, descriptive statistics are included and statistical analysis has been accomplished to detect the significant relationship between the dimensions of organizational intelligence data with the components of knowledge sharing
Summary
Knowledge is considered as a valuable asset and as a source of competitive advantage for an organization and in order to succeed in this competitive environment, necessary knowledge should be acquired more effectively than competitors should. The subject of this study is faculty members' knowledge sharing behaviors and the effect of organizational intelligence on this behavior. This was a qualitative and quantitative study, with the priority on qualitative. The elements of knowledge sharing behaviors are diagnosed and determined and in the second phase, descriptive statistics are included and statistical analysis has been accomplished to detect the significant relationship between the dimensions of organizational intelligence data with the components of knowledge sharing. In this study, the “behavioral” dimension of faculty members’ knowledge sharing has been examined and the four dimensions are determined as knowledge sharing behavioral dimensions. The model has been measured based on validity and reliability by the load factor method (confirmatory factor analysis) and in the second stage, the structural model has been examined through the analysis of indicators of fitness, coefficient of determination and path analysis
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