Evaluation of Effective Factors on Knowledge Exchange among Employees (Case Study: Islamic Azad University, 4th Zone)

Knowledge is the driving motor of knowledge-oriented development and paying attention to it will have an ever-increasing role in the growth of societies. Today, gaining knowledge related to work is not sufficient at all. Produced information and key knowledge in the organization must be exchanged and shared with colleagues that need such knowledge in order to better performing of their working tasks in the organization so that the organization could achieve stable competitive advantage.

Islamic Azad University must be more active in the field of learner organization and knowledge management given to its knowledge nature. Recognizing the effective factors on knowledge exchange and implementation of knowledge management process and main factors of its success in Islamic Azad University are objectives of the present survey. One-hundred eighty one (181) persons were selected among employees of Islamic Azad University located at 4th zone in this survey. Research hypotheses were tested by SPSS software and these results were obtained: 1- There is a significant relationship between informal conversations of employees and their confidence level with employees' knowledge sharing. 2- Using knowledge sharing in the standards of job promotion and reward won't be leaded to encourage employees to exchange their knowledge with others.