Exploring the Factor Affecting Intentions to Knowledge Sharing: the Case of Iran Police Force

This study has discussed the factors related to the knowledge management based on the previous studies as well as the studies knowledge management in police forces. According to a studies carried out in the cycle of knowledge management in government agencies and police forces, knowledgesharing is the main success of knowledge management in these organizations. Therefore, based on these studies, a questionnaire was completed in Iran police force. The questionnaire was a series of questions based on a Likert scale that covered the dependent variable of intention to share knowledge and independent variables of trust, organizational structure, leadership, rewards, time and information technology and then the data were analyzed to identify factors that influence the success of knowledge management in the police force. The results indicated the effectiveness of leadership, trust, reward and IT factors and indicated that organizational structure and knowledge sharing are not effective factors then these factor were prioritized and in the end the appropriate strategies of knowledge management implementation was discussed.