A Study of the Relationship between the Social Intelligence and Job Performance of AQR Library Managers

• Main Authors: Sahar Anbaraki, Abd al-Rasoul Jowkar, Saeedeh Ebrahimi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi 2016-03-01
• Series: کتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی
• Subjects: trust; knowledge sharing; scientific virtual communities; online scientific social network; researchers; shiraz university; persian gulf university
• Online Access: http://lis.aqr-libjournal.ir/article_48140_903b834c355829b79f0b866186bca2ec.pdf
• ISSN: 1680-9637; 2676-5977

<strong>Purpose:</strong> This research investigates the role of trust on the willingness of sharing knowledge in scientific virtual communities through studying online scientific social networks. <strong>Methodology:</strong> In terms of purpose, this is an applied research and the method of data collection is descriptive survey. Reseach population included all faculty members of the Shiraz University and the Persian Gulf University in Bushehr. Based on a population of 900 persons, a sample of 269 was determined for data collection through two questionnaires: Zhao (2010) and Wu, Chen and Chung (2010) <strong>Findings:</strong> Results showed that trust and knowledge sharing had a correlation of 0/82, indicating a high impact of trust on willingness in sharing of knowledge. The highest effects of trust on knowledge sharing were through factors such as commitment with coefficient of 0/79, confidence with coefficient of 0/68 and online status with coefficient of 0/63. Also there were relationship between the variables of trust, satisfaction with beta coefficient 0/481 as the highest impact on the willingness to share knowledge. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> According to the high impact of trust on the willingness of researchers to share knowledge in scientific virtual communities, it would be possible to plans and develop strategies to improve the level of trust and researchers’ eagerness to use such communities more than before.