Effects of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management in Razi Petrochemical Company
Abstract
Growing technological advances and the complex process of competing firms have led the knowledge of the organization and management of knowledge to be considered as one of the important and effective elements of the new management. From another perspective, the concept of knowledge management is influenced by various factors. Concept of organizational culture is one of the factors that has a significant impact on the implementation of knowledge management. This study was conducted to determine the impact of organizational culture on knowledge management, in this respect. Since Razi Petrochemical Company has been successful in implementing knowledge management, it was selected as the study population. Therefore, Robbins organizational culture models have been used to examine aspects of the organizational culture of the company, and general model of knowledge management, the Newman and Conrad, were used to check the status of knowledge management. In this study, library methods and a questionnaire were used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by content analysis by experts and its reliability confirmed by calculating Cronbach's alpha. The population of this research, based on the formalization of managers and experts of Razi Petrochemical Company, were a total of 300 people, among whom 168 cases were identified. The linear regression and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for data analysis. The results indicated there is a relationship between the variables of the members of the organization, team, ambition, creativity and risk taking, and attention to detail with knowledge management.
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