Knowledge transfer as new concept which attracts scholars' attentions can be improved by factors such as organizational Culture, leadership style, and employee engagement. As the main objective of the preset study, three organizational, managerial and membership aspects were considered as main factors which can influence knowledge transfer through organizations. To gain this goal, the proposed model has investigated the relationship between three variables of organizational Culture, leadership style, employee engagement ad knowledge transfer through structural equation modeling method and by AMOS software. The present study has conducted 250 professionals working in over 8 software organizations. All data was gathered by multi dimensional questionnaire. The results indicated that all these three variables strongly related to knowledge transfer in organizations.
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