Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PHD student of educational management, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Heydarieh branch, Torbat Heydarieh, Iran
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Assistant Professor of Educational Management, Dareh Shahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dareh Shahr, Iran (corresponding author)
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Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Heydarieh branch, Torbat Heydarieh, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Torbat Heydarieh branch, Torbat Heydarieh, Iran.
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the current status of organizational knowledge management of secondary school principals.
Research method: This research was conducted with a qualitative approach and a data-based method. The scope of the research includes all agents involved in the management of schools, who were selected through purposeful criterion-based sampling. In order to analyze the data, open, axial and selective coding method was used. Lincoln and Cuban criteria were used to ensure validity and reliability.
Findings: The findings of the research show nineteen core concepts and eight selected categories, which in the form of a paradigm model include lack of awareness of the necessity and executive frameworks of knowledge management in schools as a core category and causal conditions (lack of attention) Networking in the direction of knowledge management, weak leadership in intra-school activities, lack of equipping schools with knowledge management tools, contextual factors (environmental, managerial and resource factors), facilitating intervention conditions (individual characteristics) organizational support and knowledge management process requirements), limiting intervening conditions (structural barriers, educational and managerial barriers, cultural barriers), strategies and the consequence (imbalance in the knowledge management cycle of schools and neglecting the creation and sharing of knowledge in schools) was organized.
Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that for the implementation of knowledge management in the organization, individual, organizational and management factors are effective and these factors should be considered together.
Key words: knowledge management, managers, secondary schools, foundation data
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