Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management

Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management

Assessing the effect of knowledge sharing on Employees' Psychological Empowerment by Clarifying Mediating Role of organizational memory and learning collaborative electronic in National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran

Authors
Davood Feiz
Mahdi Dehghani Soltani
Hossein Farsizadeh
Rasoul Ghollamzadeh
10.35050/JIPM010.2017.036
Abstract
Nowadays knowledge has been enumerated as a valuable and important source in libraries. Knowledge sharing among employees is necessary for libraries’ survive and goal achievement. On the other hand, empowerment people with high moral are an important factor in the libraries’ survival and life. In other words, the importance of human resources is far from the new technology and material and financial resources. As a result, this study aimed at evaluating the effect of knowledge sharing on psychological empowerment with regard to organizational memory and learning electronic participation the role of the mediator. The research data were gathered from four areas named at organizing; communicating; education and logistic by questioner. Construct validity and cronbach's alpha coefficient were used for assessing the validity and reliability respectively. To hypotheses test, structural equation modeling and Lisrel software were used. The results show that knowledge sharing has a directly significant impact on psychological empowerment. While knowledge sharing has an indirect impact on psychological empowerment, this impact via organizational memory and electronic participation learning is far greater than its direct impact. The results also show that organizational memory has not any effect on the psychological empowerment.
Keywords
Knowledge sharing
Psychological Empowerment
Organizational Memory
Electronic Participation Learning
National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran

  • Receive Date 10 December 2022
  • Revise Date 28 May 2023