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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{What Factors Should Be Taken into Account When Knowledge Management Is Intended? A Concept Mapping Study among Iranian Agricultural Experts\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Masoumeh Forouzani, Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University (Khouzestan), Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Education, Ramin, Iran, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{m.forouzani@yahoo.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Masoumeh Forouzani$^{1}$, Seyed Ahmad Mohammadinia$^{2}$, Saeid Mohammadzadeh$^{3}$, Masoud Baradaran$^{4}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University (Khouzestan), Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Education, Iran}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Education, }}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{3}$Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Dept. of Agricultural Extension and Education, }}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{4}$Khuzestan Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University, Dept. of Agricultural Extension, Iran}}}
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Knowledge management is essentially creation, discovering, organising, application and sharing of knowledge as a resource. Competitive advantages are to be achieved when knowledge management play a major role into the long term policymaking of organisations. Human resources in each organisation have a lot of knowledge of which they may not aware explicitly. Social background, political contexts and group or individual interests in specific interaction settings affect transferring this practical knowledge to others. To find out which factors should be taken into account to facilitate knowledge management in an agricultural organisations, this study was carried out in a qualitative manner. Several concept mapping exercises were devised to elicit the views of agricultural experts about the factors affecting knowledge transferring and management in their organisation. The participants were selected through a snowball sampling method in which each participant was asked to introduce other potential information"=rich cases about knowledge management. Results showed that two main factors are involved in motivating the knowledge management process: internal and external organisational environment. External factors included efficiency of human training systems such as universities, cooperation with other related organisations, institutes and NGOs, and demanding informant clients. The internal environment per se divided into two categories: general atmosphere of organisation and individual"=related factors each one included different elements. Type of administrating system (governmental vs. private systems), application of information technology, in"=service training courses, principal supportive views to motivate knowledge sharing, decision making process, knowledge preserving and protecting mechanism, accessibility to classified organisational information, task and duty manuals, rewarding system, human resource employing and retiring mechanism are the main internal factors which constitute the organisation general atmosphere. In addition, personal characteristics of staffs, knowledge acquisition behaviour, evaluation criteria of knowledge goodness, and need to knowledge management recognised as the main individual"=related elements. At the final part, by focusing on each category, some applied recommendations to improve knowledge management process in the context of agricultural organisation were presented. }

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agricultural organisation, Concept mapping, human resources, Iran, Knowledge management
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