The Effect of Knowledge Management Practices on Employees' Psychological Empowerment

Subject Areas : مدیریت

Aliakbar Ahmadi ¹ , Alireza Malek Aorzaman ² , Mehdi Shykhlar ³

1 - Professor, Department of Management, West Tehran Branch, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 - M.Sc. Student, Department of Management, West Tehran Branch, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3 - M.Sc. in Management, Department of Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-06-19 Accepted : 2017-06-19 Published : 2017-03-21

Keywords: Psychological Empowerment, Knowledge management, Sense of Competence, Feel Significantly,

Abstract :

Organizers are well aware that if they want to be proactive in the economy and labor market and do not miss competition, they should have creative, professional, highly motivated manpower, and a useful technique for achieving this goal is through by use of employee empowerment that is influenced by several factors, one of which factor is knowledge management.The present study considers how and what extent the improvement of knowledge management capacity cans effect on promotion of psychological empowerment in the organization. The research method is descriptive and correlational. Statistical society include 340 regional experts of the Islamic culture and relations organization that 180 person were selected by random sampling method. After distribution of questionnaires, the data were analyzed by software PLS and SPSS. The research results indicated that knowledge management has a positive and significant impact on psychological empowerment. In this regard some proposal to upgrade the existing situation is presented.