Discussion Relation between Knowledge Management and Personnel Empowerment of Iranian Dam Construction Enterprise

Abstract

This research is to discuss relation of knowledge management to personnel empowerment of Iranian dam Construction Enterprise which was performed by descriptive –correlative method. The statistical society consists of all personnel of Iranian Dam Construction Enterprise which are 220 people based on the last statistics of year 2015. 140 people have been selected as for simple random sampling. Knowledge management and empowerment questionnaires have been used in order to collect data and their validity was 0/87 and 0/84 in terms of alpha Cronbach coefficient. Pearson correlation test, independent T-test, and ANOVA were performed in order to analyse data. Results of independent sample t-test showed that empowerment and knowledge management has not suitable status. Results of Pearson correlation test showed that knowledge management has positive and significant relation to personnel empowerment of Iranian Dam Construction Company. Also, all indices of knowledge management including knowledge creation, sharing knowledge, knowledge application and knowledge saving have positive and significant relation to personnel empowerment of Iranian Dam Construction Enterprise which this relation has meaningful at level alpha 0/01. As for the positive correlation coefficient, it can be said that increment of knowledge is resulted in the restoration of personnel empowerment.