Document Type : Original Article
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1 Shahid Beheshti University
2 Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the level of waste of knowledge in the studied universities,
Methodology: This research used an evaluative research method, and a survey was used for evaluation. The measurement tool was the standard questionnaire of Klein et al. (2023), whose reliability and validity have been examined and confirmed by the aforementioned researchers. The dimensions of the questionnaire were waste of explicit knowledge, weakness in preserving tacit knowledge, overspecialization, and underused talents. The cases studied were Shahid Beheshti University , Islamic Azad University's Central Organization, and Payam Noor University's Central organization in Tehran. The respondents were experts of educational affairs. Systematic sampling was used to select respondents, and the Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size. Smple size was estimated to be 157 people, of which 50 were from Shahid Beheshti University, 50 from Azad University, and 57 from Payam Noor University.
Findings: The findings showed that all four dimensions of waste of knowledge were more than the average in the studied universities. Also, the findings showed that waste of explicit knowledge and overspecialization were higher in Islamic Azad University than the other two universities. In addition, the findings showed that the dimensions of waste of knowledge had a significant relationship with the introversion/extroversion characteristic of the respondents, so that extroverted respondents significantly believed that waste of explicit knowledge occurs more in universities. Also, the results of logistic regression analysis showed that overspecialization is the most important factor of waste of knowledge in studied universities.
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