Professional Ethics and Knowledge Management

Nowadays, knowledge management is used by organizations for improving their usefulness. Since, with accumulation and documentation of organizational knowledge and shraring it between staff, they receive to this goal. Ethic is an important and serios subject that has an important role in scientific actualization, industrial progression and social welfare and leads to the facilitation of knowledge management. Professional ethic is a branch of ethic. In this article, we try to recognize the relation between professional ethics and knowledge management. This research method is descriptive-correlation. Valriables are as follow: professional ethic elements and knowledge management. Sample of study included 166 staff of department and colledges of Islamic Azad University (branch of Sanandaj). Data analyzed by SPSS 18 and Lisrel 8.8. findings show that there is a positive and significant relation between professional ethic and knowledge management. In other hand, whatever the staff be more diligent in adhering to professional ethics, establishment of knowledge management will be simpler. Actually employees will pave the way with self-control and spontaneously. The best strategy to establishment of knowledge management is improving the professional management. Generalization of findings should be done on group that knowledge management established on them.