The purpose of this article is to evaluate the status of higher education to establish knowledge management. The present study,
with its descriptive model, investigates the situation in Islamic Azad University regarding organizational culture, information
technology, organizational structure and human resources in order to establish a suitable model for knowledge management. The
statistical population of this study includes all members of the board of education and the staff of the Islamic Azad University
Tehran Central Branch. In order to analyze the research questions, the researcher made use of descriptive and inferential
statistics. The findings of the research indicated that in the above-mentioned university, the situation of human resources is
suitable, the status of organizational structure and culture is average and it is poor for that of information technology for the
application of knowledge management. Finally, based on the research results, the executive model and the stages and steps of
implementation of knowledge have been presented.
Now that the significance of knowledge and its management in higher education is of no doubt, the following
question will be posed: How can knowledge management be created in an educational organization (higher
education)?
Regarding the above-mentioned points, in the present study, concepts of knowledge management, various
models related to knowledge management, research findings, and findings of different researchers in the field of
knowledge management were discussed in higher education. Afterwards, the current situation of higher education
for the creation of knowledge management was scrutinized regarding organizational culture, information
technology, human / and organizational structure; and finally based on the findings of the research, the suitable
model for the formation of knowledge management in higher education was presented. Accordingly, the researchers
posed four major questions to serve the main purposes of the study, which are as follows:
1. How is the situation of information technology in higher education (Azad University) for establishing
knowledge management?
2. How is the situation of organizational structure in higher education (Azad University) for establishing
knowledge management?
3. How is the situation of human resources in higher education (Azad University) for establishing knowledge
management?
4. How is the situation of organizational culture in higher education (Azad University) for establishing
knowledge management?