Model for Enriching Knowledge Management of R&D Employee by Gamification System

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Deployment of knowledge management in organizations with research and development approach, is faced many barriers. Gamification system is one of the solutions can be used to extract knowledge of employees. This system is studied for enriching knowledge management in R&D fields. In this study, with the help of a questionnaire and its distribution among R&D experts of Iran Khodro Company (Iran-Khodro Diesel, Iran-Khodro Passenger, IPCO, TAM and SAPCo). The result of this study shows the relationship between gamification system, the knowledge management process and development in organizational, environmental and organizational dimensions, and then were evaluated it. Based on the results of the first stage, it was determined using Kolmogorov-Smirnov. Then in SPSS software the correlation test was investigated which the results showed that in IKCO approach of the gamification system only affects the organizational, environmental and organizational dimensions.
According to the results obtained for Iran Khodro Industrial Group in this research, it is suggested that all tools (especially reward schedule) are included in knowledge management deployment (technologies and knowledge management software, etc). In addition the employee that worked in research and development is encouraged to knowledge management sharing.

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