Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• zohre sharei ¹
• marzeye dehghanizade ²
• Mohammad Hasanzadeh Odorji ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Management Group, Faculty of Management, Economics Accounting, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Economics and Accounting, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

³ Master of Public Administration, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This research aims to explore the motivation to participate in intra-organizational knowledge sharing. The current research was conducted qualitatively based on the interpretive paradigm and with a developmental applied approach. To collect data, library sources and semi-structured interviews were used. The statistical population of the research was the faculty members of Payam Noor University, who were selected based on criteria for a purposeful sample of 16 people. The validity and reliability of the data obtained from the interviews were obtained by using the acceptability criteria and the ability to confirm and retest. Data analysis was done using the Grounded Theory method and coding process in three stages of open, central, and selective coding. The codings were drawn in all three stages of explanation and the motivation model for intra-organizational knowledge sharing for the faculty members of Payam Noor University based on the foundation data method. The results of the research in the qualitative part showed that the four categories of strategic alignment of knowledge sharing, management factors, individual factors, and content creation, in this research, the sharing environment, educational aspects, evaluation, technical issues, infrastructure, and information issues are the main contextual factors. Two categories of personality factors of members and instability of organizational culture are considered as intervening categories. The strategy of this research is four transformation factors, growth orientation, organizational context, and organizational strategies, the last part of the model includes the consequences Organizational dynamics, social consequences, the development of structural factors, and the Development of learning organization

Keywords

• Grounded Theory
• knowledge sharing
• motivation
• participation
• intra-organizational

Main Subjects

• Information and Knowledge Management