Mechanisms for knowledge management and achieving organizational development of higher education institutions from a community organization perspective

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The research described “knowledge management mechanisms” as one of the methods of developing higher education in Egypt, especially social work institutions and towards achieving organizational development within them.

These mechanisms used for identifying, acquiring, generating, storing, and organizing knowledge, as well as for knowledge application and development.

Knowledge management is considered one of the most important means and methods that can contribute to improve the environment of the educational system, with its material and human components.

And based on the fact that the method of community organization as one of the professional methods in the social work profession seeks to combine all efforts which it is possible to achieve organizational development within the institutions of society as a whole, including the importance of organizational development within educational institutions as one of the mechanisms and methods of practicing this method in development organizational and overall quality of the institution.

The study attempted to answer the following questions : 1- What are the mechanisms of knowledge management and achieving organizational development in higher education institutions? 2- What is the reality of knowledge management mechanisms, namely (knowledge diagnosis-knowledge acquisition-knowledge generation-knowledge storage-knowledge distribution-knowledge application-knowledge organization)? 3- What are the most obstacles that face higher education institutions in achieving organizational development using knowledge management ? This study was considered a descriptive and analytical study.

The social survey method was used.

The study found that there is a noticeable increase in the level of influence of knowledge management mechanisms related to "knowledge diagnosis-knowledge acquisition-knowledge generation-knowledge storage and organization-knowledge development and application" and achieving institutional organizational development.

The most influential of them was the process of diagnosing knowledge.

And that there are many obstacles that hinder knowledge management processes in higher education institutions and their degree is high represented in administrative, technical, human, technological, cultural and organizational obstacles, the most prominent of which is the ence of measures to measure the degree of knowledge exchange among the institution's employees, as well as the lack of awareness of knowledge management, as well as the lack of knowledge management skills.

Staff of the institutions in addition to the lack of organizational units for knowledge management, which negatively affects the organizational development of higher education institutions.

At the conclusion of the research, a set of means by which knowledge management processes are achieved in a way that contributes to achieving organizational development in higher education institutions was presented.