The purpose of this article is to evaluate the status of higher education to establish knowledge management. The present study, with its descriptive model, investigates the situation in Islamic Azad University regarding organizational culture, information technology, organizational structure and human resources in order to establish a suitable model for knowledge management. The statistical population of this study includes all members of the board of education and the staff of the Islamic Azad University Tehran Central Branch. In order to analyze the research questions, the researcher made use of descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the research indicated that in the above-mentioned university, the situation of human resources is suitable, the status of organizational structure and culture is average and it is poor for that of information technology for the application of knowledge management. Finally, based on the research results, the executive model and the stages and steps of implementation of knowledge have been presented.
Now that the significance of knowledge and its management in higher education is of no doubt, the following question will be posed: How can knowledge management be created in an educational organization (higher education)?