Examining Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management (KM) Implementation in Central Tehran Branch Faculty of Management

Subject Areas : Futurology

Ayoub  Pazhouhan ¹ (ندارد)
Alireza  Amirkabiri ² (مسئول مکاتبات)

Received: 2011-04-27 Accepted : 2011-08-16 Published : 2011-10-23

Keywords: organizational culture, knowledge management, Management Support, Organizational Belongings, Individual Creativity, leadership style, Agreement to Conflict,

Abstract :

Knowledge management that is one of ways for promoting organizational survivalconditions, when will be successfully performed in organization if the appropriate culturalcontext be provided to this system that previously. Because the guidance of current knowledgein organization, is a human issue, and completely relates to human resources and depends tostaff organizational culture. Therefore organizations should provide the appropriate culture forsuccessful performance of knowledge management.The purpose of this study is examining relationship among organizational culture andknowledge Management (KM) Implementation in Central Tehran Branch Faculty ofManagementStatistical population of this study includes the whole staff personnel and faculty members ofCentral Tehran Branch, faculty of management ( N: 180), that this number 70 staff personneland 110 faculty members and sample of this research( N: 120), include 40 staff personnel and80 faculty members. For gathering data in this study tow questionnaires, ( %76 validity fororganizational culture questionnaire and %96 validity for knowledge management) have beenused. The respondents evaluated the situation of organizational culture and knowledgemanagement implementation averages in the faculty of management and the results showed thatthere are meaningful relation between organizational culture and it’s categories include:management support, organizational belongings, individual creativity. and leadership style withimplementation of knowledge management in both groups of statistical population and whereasthere is meaningful relation between agreement to conflict and implementation knowledgemanagement in staff group, But in faculty members, there is not meaningful relation betweenagreement to conflict and implementation knowledge management in faculty of management.