Investigating Methods of Transferring Tacit Knowledge among Nursing Experts of Iranian Hospitals

Dehghani, Leila and Basirian Jahromi, Reza and Ganjoo, Mazyar and Akhundzadeh, Maryam and Ganjoo, Mahasty (2013) Investigating Methods of Transferring Tacit Knowledge among Nursing Experts of Iranian Hospitals. International Journal of Information Science and Management, 3 (2). pp. 77-90.

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Abstract

Nursing tacit knowledge is a knowledge that is produced inside the mind of nurses and not saved in any databases. The main challenge of nursing knowledge management is transferring tacit knowledge inside the mind of nurses to the others – especially scholars and researchers. This study evaluates personal, organizational, and technological factors affecting the tacit knowledge transfer among nursing experts. It also assesses the most important ways of tacit knowledge transfer among hospital nurses. This study applied survey method. The population was all nursing experts of Bushehr governmental hospitals nurses which were 480 and finally 215 nurses were selected as the sample. Data collection tool included a researcher-made questionnaire. Descriptive and analytical statistics tests were used. It was revealed that the most important way of tacit knowledge transfer among nursing experts was participating in continuing educational courses. Findings indicated that the most important personal factor affecting tacit knowledge transfer was job security; most important organizational factor was rewards system; and most important technological factor was independent physical environment and educational technologies.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: indexer:anis najafi
Uncontrolled Keywords: knowledge management, knowledge transfer, tacit knowledge, nursing knowledge.
Divisions: Faculty of Medicin
Depositing User: Unnamed user with username karvarz2
Date Deposited: 17 Jul 2016 03:10
Last Modified: 17 Jul 2016 03:10
URI: http://eprints.bpums.ac.ir/id/eprint/4431

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