Improving Knowledge Sharing, in Research and Development Organizations (Investigating the Role of Culture, Justice and Trust)

Nowadays the effective use of organizational knowledge and sharing it among the staff has become an strategic resource to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. For achieving such Organizations need to have strategies to improve knowledge sharing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and trust, culture and trust and knowledge sharing and trust as the most important factor influencing knowledge sharing in the research institute of petroleum industry (the largest research centers of oil industry in Iran). This study is a descriptive approach based on branch correlation and structural equation modeling. Statistical sample includes employees working in research institute of petroleum industry .The main tool for data collection, is questionnaire. The results indicate that there was a significant positive relationship between organizational justice and organizational trust. The relationship between organizational culture and trust was significant positive too. Also knowledge sharing and organizational trust, has a direct and significant relationship