The Relationship between Establishment of Knowledge Management and Self-efficacy among Principals of Boys' State High Schools in Tehran

The present study aims to investigate the potential relationship between the establishment of knowledge management and the self-efficacy among the principals of boys' state high schools in Tehran. This study was conducted within a descriptive framework through correlations and the statistical population included the principals of boys' state High schools in Tehran (204 individuals). From the mentioned population, 140 individuals were selected for this study based on Morgan's sample size table and through cluster and stratified sampling methods. The instruments used for this study included two researcher-made questionnaires which aimed to investigated self-efficacy and meta-cognition. The validity of the questionnaires was evaluated and confirmed through investigating theoretical principles as well as the comments provided by the experts and professors in the field and the reliability of the questionnaires was obtained though a pilot study. The data were analyzed by SPSS.16 through Pearson correlation coefficient as well as multiple regression and one-way ANOVA. The results of the data analysis revealed a significant relationship between establishment of knowledge management and self-efficacy among the principals. The results also indicated that there is a significant relationship between knowledge management elements and self-efficacy. Multiple regression was used for examining the predicting power of independent variables for dependent variables. According to the findings, organizing the specialized working teams could be mentioned as the most effective factor for improving the self-efficacy among the school principals. The potential implications and recommendations for the future studies are discusses in the last section.