ABSTRACT
The world today is the world of information and knowledge transformation; therefore, it is necessary that organizations gain the necessary abilities for activity in these circumstances. Indeed, an efficient tool for gaining this ability is knowledge management. An organization must develop human resources and increase the rate of available information and knowledge for overriding other organizations. Nevertheless, the aim of this research is to study factors of structure and culture that are the most important organizational factors and their impact on knowledge sharing in the organization. For amassing the necessary information, a field study and a questionnaire tool are applied. In this research, 47 questionnaires were distributed among managers of production companies, and all of them replied and returned the questionnaires. A Spearman correlation test is used to study the rate and type of relationship between independent and dependent variables. Also, a Friedman test was employed to determine the degree of importance of structural and cultural factors affecting knowledge sharing among organization staff. Based on these analyses, each of the four research hypotheses is accepted. Teamwork, innovation, confidence among staff, compensation, communication between members and the type of performance appraisal are the most important cultural factors respectively, and centralization, formality and complexity, in that order, are the most important organization structural factors identified in this research.
