Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to confirm quantitatively the previous finding that organizational characteristics influence knowledge management, and to assess whether the national culture of knowledge workers equally affects the management of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data gathered from a questionnaire survey of a Japanese pharmaceutical company’s 14 foreign sub...

Knowledge is recognized as one of the most important and valuable management assets because knowledge enables organizations to utilize and develop resources, enhance their competitiveness and develop sustainable competitive advantage. A number of knowledge management approaches have been developed with the purpose of managing organizational knowledge. However, these approaches only focus on man...

background and objectives: accreditation is a widely used mechanism to keep organization adherent to the established standards. the aim of the study was to identify barriers towards promotion of accreditation in the iranian hospitals, and exploring the potential overcoming strategies.   methods: a qualitative study design was adopted. data were collected using a questionnaire with open question...

the present paper deals with the role of played by knowledge management in organizations and its impact on their improved operations, including libraries. the km mission within an organization is to transform the tacit knowledge of employees into an important source for decision making as well as proactive documentation of explicit knowledge for achieving organizational goals. the closer man’s ...

organizational performance evaluation is a component of management control process involving complex relationships between variables at social, organizational and individual levels.

the aim of the research is to determine the concept of conflict, conflict management scope and approaches in managerial approaches based on islamic view. to achieve the goal, content analysis has been used. research data was collected from the books and articles in the context of management, human relations and organizational behavior reflecting islamic view. a number of 19 books and articles t...