conclusions knowledge management can improve the qwl in nursing personnel in zahedan teaching hospitals. based on the findings of the study, hospital managers, especially head nurses, could play a crucial role in improving qwl by institutionalization of knowledge management in nursing personnel and sharing and developing knowledge to advance the practice. results knowledge management score in s...

This paper aims to reveal the multidimensionality of knowledge-sharing intentions and its perception by employees in optometry practices. Data were collected from 187 optometry employees in Taiwan through a survey. The collected data were used to examine the proposed model. Empirical results show that individual autonomy, organizational collaboration, professional requirement, knowledge-sharing...

This paper describes the architecture of a knowledge management system that exploits social and semantic web technology in order to ease and promote user-centered modeling, evolution, sharing and access to knowledge in distributed and heterogeneous repositories. For that, several knowledge engineering processes are improved in order to exploit social information between users and communities.

many organizations have developed knowledge sharing programs, such as mentoring, and knowledge transfer from retired employees, in order to articulate and maintain valuable knowledge. knowledge sharing leads to the spreading of innovative ideas and best practices. it consists of two important processes: knowledge contribution and knowledge reception. however, knowledge reception can be failed w...

Knowledge Sharing is by far the most important component of a Knowledge Management programme. Organisations strive to gain competitive advantage through efficiencies. When organisations realise that organisational knowledge is by far the most valuable resource they need to find ways for efficient and effective Knowledge Sharing. We explore the barriers to knowledge sharing especially in virtual...

empowerment within an organization is an ability that provides decision making opportunity by developing the span of authority, and it caused the breakage of traditional hierarchy of organizational structure. among different dimensions of empowerment, its psychological dimension so has been considered by researchers in length of past years. knowledge sharing is one of the factors which effects ...

introduction: knowledge is a critical resource for organizations working in dynamically competitive environments. in any organization, leaders who have the power to incite and influence knowledge management processes. nevertheless, there is lack of empirical evidence from previous studies on examining this relationship. in view of this, the current study examined the relationship between transf...