Knowledge Sharing and Utilization: The case of Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor & Social Welfare

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of employees’ knowledge sharing for each type of knowledge and the extent of employees’ knowledge utilization according to their demographic characteristics among Ministry of cooperatives, labor & social welfare employees'. Data was collected via a questionnaire designed to measure the extent of employees’ knowledge sharing for each type of knowledge and the extent of employees’ knowledge utilization according to their demographic characteristics. The data was explored by independent-samples t-test and one-way ANOVA collected from 140 Ministry of cooperatives, labor & social welfare headquarter employees. There was not significant difference between the average of embrained, embodied, encultured, and embedded knowledge sharing unlike encoded knowledge sharing according to gender of the respondents. Also, there was not significant difference between the average of embrained, embodied, embedded, and encoded knowledge sharing unlike encultured knowledge sharing according to post of the respondents. Moreover, there was not significant difference between the average of reception, cognition, discussion, and effort stages unlike reference and influence stages according to post of the respondents.

کلیدواژه ها:

Knowledge sharing ، Knowledge utilization