nafiseh taghizadeh kerman

This paper aims to synthesize findings drawn from studies on knowledge leadership to identify the key trend of research in the knowledge management literature over the past two decades. A systematic literature review was performed over a data set of 149 related studies published in the international journals indexed by the WoS, SCOPUS, ProQuest, Google Scholar, Emerald Insight, and Elsevier databases between 2001 and 2021. The findings conceptualized the nature of “knowledge leadership” and revealed six core themes focusing on multiple leadership styles, knowledge leadership for learning, effective KM leadership, leader-member exchange, and customer knowledge leadership. Additionally, the content analysis revealed the importance of knowledge leaders being more transformational, distributed, empowering, and visionary. It has been widely reported that transformational leadership is a significant driver of knowledge management practices in the organization. This study provides an integrated picture of effective knowledge leadership for managers and practitioners that significantly depends on a paradigm shift from hierarchical structures and traditional models of leadership to the use of shared, distributed, and networking leadership. Given this increasing interest in studying the role of leadership in KM, it is interesting to investigate the research trend of knowledge leadership in the KM literature.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of working conditions on job success by mediating the role of workaholism among faculty members in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The research method was descriptive-correlational with emphasis on Structural Equation Modeling. The statistical population included all faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (N= 794). Using Morgan table, 260 people were selected by simple random sampling method.  Data were collected through the work- holism, working conditions Questionnaire (DCSQ).  Data were analyzed using SPSS and SMART PLS software. The research results showed that at 99% confidence level, workaholism and job success among professors were higher than average and variable of psychological requirements and social support were lower than average. Also the results of showed that workaholism variable can play a mediating role in the relationship between control range and decision making and, job success, but it does not play a role in the relationship between social support and job success. The results of this study confirmed the research model that suggests positive and indirect effect of job control on job success through workaholism and a positive and direct effect of job control and social support on job success.