The role of knowledge capital in reducing the negative effects of crises: Study at the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture

Abstract

In order for organizations to remain in a continuous environment of complexity, change and rapid changes and fluctuations, they must keep pace with all the developments and changes that occur and predict their results in order to achieve the best levels of performance and this can only be done through the presence of knowledge and how to employ it to achieve the best methods through which it can be predicted Crises, how to deal with them and develop solutions for them. This study sheds light on the role that knowledge capital plays in facing crises and trying to reduce their effects as much as possible. The study included a set of questions, the most important of which is whether the dimensions of knowledge capital have a relationship and influence on reducing crises and their effects, and in order to clarify this relationship and influence between the research variables, the study variables were adopted represented by the main variable, which is the knowledge capital, which includes the following dimensions (basic skills, technical skills The effect of external and inner knowledge) and the secondary variable is the impact of crises. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, several main hypotheses were relied on, and a group of secondary hypotheses were branched out of them. The information was obtained from a questionnaire prepared for this purpose and distributed to a random sample of department heads and divisions in the Ministry of Agriculture consisting of (100) individuals. The study reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a correlation and influence between cognitive accumulation and reducing the effects resulting from crises. The surveyed organized study recommended the necessity of relying on knowledge capital in order to reach the best results to reduce the effects of crises.