Authors : Saeid Shavvalpur, Morteza Bayat and Fahimeh Sharif
Abstract: A big number of organizations including profiting and non-profiting, profit and mission-driven have figured out that knowledge is their major capital and asset. Hence, they look at knowledge management as a main factor in achieving success in long-term based on their major perspectives and strategies. Similar to any other systems, knowledge management also needs some methods to be implemented and executed. The methods of knowledge management are combinations of human-driven approaches emphasizing on human and technology-driven resources relying on information technology. Communities of Practice (CoP) is used as one of human-driven approaches in order to promote and stabilize knowledge in knowledge-driven organizations. The main aim of this study is designing a model to increase expected values of organizations through forming and establishing Communities of Practice (CoP) as a human-driven approach emphasizing on human resources. Due to this aim, descriptive-analytical study method was used. As the first step, 26 effective independent variables on forming and establishing CoP were identified through studying and investigating theoretical texts. As the second step, the rate of importance for these variables were determined through providing a structured questionnaire by organizational elites of various business domains who were selected through target purposive sampling. Descriptive levels including testing structural model and independent sample t-test and hypotheses were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS Software. The obtained results show that leadership is the most important factor in organization for forming CoP and CoP is also effective on knowledge management procedures and directly affects value creation in organizations that means after improving knowledge management procedures.
Saeid Shavvalpur, Morteza Bayat and Fahimeh Sharif, 2017. Proposing a Model to Create Value in Organizations Through Forming and Establishing Communities of Practice (COP). Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 1085-1091.