A survey on the effects of knowledge management on organizational learning: A case study of technical and vocational training organization

Naser Azad,Esmaeil Mehrabi Majolan,Vahid Peej

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2014.2.018

Abstract

Article history: Received July 28, 2013 Received in revised format 20 November 2013 Accepted 4 January 2014 Available online February 16 2014 This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of knowledge management on organizational learning. The study is held in headquarter of technical and vocational training organization in city of Tehran, Iran. The proposed study measures the effects of concept of management, management, knowledge tools, measurement, change management and knowledge content on organizational learning. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale and selects a sample of 313 people randomly from 1680 people who work for this organization in city of Tehran, Iran. Using structural equation modeling, the study has detected a positive and meaningful relationship with knowledge management on organizational learning. In our survey, knowledge content is the most important factor followed by change management. © 2014 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Highlights

Knowledge playas essential role on the success of organizations and knowledge management (KM) is the key component of business development (Nonaka, 1991, 1995; Collinson & Cook, 2007; Van Grinsven & Visser, 2011). Darroch (2005), for instance, provided important empirical evidence to support the role of KM within firms
Monavvarian, and Kasaei (2007) studied the impact of organizational elements and the performance of knowledge management. They identified seven main independent variables including organizational culture, organizational structure, technology, human resources, transparency of documents, flow of information and communication, and training and they were examined against creation, dissemination and store of knowledge, together with implementation of KM based on the multi-variable regression test
This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of knowledge management on organizational learning (Huber, 1991; Lam, 2001; Jerez‐Gómez et al, 2005)

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Introduction

Knowledge playas essential role on the success of organizations and knowledge management (KM) is the key component of business development (Nonaka, 1991, 1995; Collinson & Cook, 2007; Van Grinsven & Visser, 2011). Darroch (2005), for instance, provided important empirical evidence to support the role of KM within firms. Monavvarian, and Kasaei (2007) studied the impact of organizational elements and the performance of knowledge management They identified seven main independent variables including organizational culture, organizational structure, technology, human resources, transparency of documents, flow of information and communication, and training and they were examined against creation, dissemination and store of knowledge, together with implementation of KM based on the multi-variable regression test. They reported that four of the independent variables influenced on the cycle of KM. Organizational learning affected organizational performance positively, both directly and indirectly through organizational innovation and organizational innovation affected organizational performance positively

The proposed study

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