Introduction: Knowledge management is considered as the hidden capital of organizations and institutions. It includes processes such as creating, acquiring, storing, transferring, sharing and applying knowledge that the process of acquiring, transferring and knowledge applying will be discussed in this paper Therefore, the aim of this study way to study The role of IT competence in the ability to acquire, transfer and application of knowledge in the general directorate of sports and youth in Western Azerbaijan province.
Methodology: This study is applied in term of the purpose and correlative in terms of method. The statistical population was all employees of the general directorate of sports and youth including 89 persons that all of them were selected using whole sampling method. To collect the data, the questionnaire of Lrj Perez and Lopez (2012) was used that it was consisting a total of 22 items that all the questions were based on 5 points Likert scale from very low to very high. The validity was approved and 0.79 was achieved for the reliability. Structural equation modeling was used to data analysis.
Results: The findings showed that IT knowledge, IT operations and IT infrastructure have a direct impact on knowledge acquisition, knowledge transfer and knowledge application. There is a significant positive relationship between the research variables.
Discussion: It seems that the General Directorate of Youth and Sport hasn’t prepared some requirements such as culture making in creating awareness toward the importance and sensitivity of the issue yet even though the knowledge application is the final and completing loop of the process of knowledge management. According to the data analysis, the Directorate General of Youth and Sports must conquer and encrypt knowledge to enrich the knowledge application and structure it to reapply. This stage of knowledge management is the excellent and evolutionist stage and maybe will be considered as the most important step. Since the success of knowledge processes depends on the cooperation and participation of the members; therefore, Directorate General of Youth and Sports should focus on the skills of team and collective works