Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 農業推廣教育研究所 === 89 === This study takes the research staffs of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan of ROC) as the target object Two researchmethods, content analysis and survey research, were applied to attain the fallowing aims: Frist the knowledge creation and sharing among the researchers within this institute; Second to examine the factors that might affect the knowledge creation and sharing.
The influential factors were divided into five categories, personal factor, the subculture of the organization, the level of trust, the acknowledgements to the encouraging systems and the knowledge about personal intellectual property. The findingo were as the following:
1. The amount of publications, both personal and collaborated, of male research staffs of TARI are greater than females’.The publication vilume produced collaboration between males appear to be more than between males and females.
2. In TARI, associate researchers have relatively the greatest number of publications; in contrast, research assistants have the lowest production, indicating that creation and sharing of research idea increase as the position rises The strongest aspiration goes to the associate researchers.
3. Rice research is the major topic in TARI since it was founded, and there is about 25.7% of rice-related publications in total. Improving the rice productivity was the main object of those studies at the very beginning. Nowadays, however, the focuses shift to diverse objects, such as raising the quality of various agro-products, ecosystem protection, molecular engineering and reuse of environmental resource, etc.
4. Regarding sub-cultural organizational effect in TARI with regard to knowledge sharing , the departmental atmosphere indeed influence one’s desire on knowledge sharing. The study result shows that the manner of a departmental leader is the key factor that affect the sharing desire among the members in the group.
5. The respondents acknowledgements to the enabling systems such as promotion, research reputation and feedback reward, are confirmed to effectively increase the knowledge sharing in the organization.
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