Abstract
Article history: Received March 29, 2012 Accepted 20 June 2012 Available online June 21 2012 The application of strategic knowledge management requires specific organization structure due to unique and particular characteristics of knowledge. In other words, by passing through industry age toward knowledge age, strategic knowledge management is considered by organizations dramatically and by considering this new competitive edge, universities should prepare an appropriate background for strategic knowledge management (encoding strategy and personalizing strategy). The primary purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a meaningful relationship between organizational structure (recognition, focus and complexity) and strategic knowledge management (codification strategy and personalization strategy) in Azad University, Kermanshah. Organizational structure is considered as independent variables and strategic knowledge management is dependent variables. When it comes to the purpose, present research is an applicable research and based on its nature and method, it is descriptive and survey research. Statistical society consists of university president, vise-president and dean of faculties of Azad University, Kermanshah; during a period of the first half of the year of 2011. Therefore, the sampling method is stratified sampling. Statistical society contains 60 people who are adjusted to 52 sample people by the use of Morgan table. Data collection tool is questionnaire structure questionnaire of Robbins and strategic knowledge management questionnaire of Carolina & AngelL. The results of the research show that there is a meaningful relationship between organizational structure and strategic knowledge management in Azad University, Kermanshah, according to codification and personalization strategy. Some suggestions are offered at the end of this research. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Knowledge management is an activity, which focuses on strategies and decision for Human-centric intellectual capital management
The results of the research show that there is a meaningful relationship between organizational structure and strategic knowledge management in Azad University, Kermanshah, according to codification and personalization strategy
At the assurance level of 0.95 and with respect to meaningful level of 0.13 and 0.12, there are some meaningful relationships between organization structural and strategic knowledge management according to codification & personalization strategy at Azad university of Kermanshah
Summary
Knowledge management is an activity, which focuses on strategies and decision for Human-centric intellectual capital management. Converting information into knowledge through social approaches can be accomplished more efficiently This is one reason we believe that knowledge management will perform better with optimization of technical and social sub-systems. Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) integrated both technical and social dimensions of knowledge management and introduced the idea of knowledge creation, which oversees the process of interaction and exchange between two types of tacit and explicit knowledge They introduced knowledge creation as "The ability of an organization to create knowledge, its dissemination throughout the organization and inclusion it in the form of goods, services and systems". Zheng et al (2010) studied the role of culture, structure, organizational effectiveness, strategy on knowledge management. Knowledge management is a mediator between organization structure effects and strategy effects on organizational effectiveness. The results indicated that there was a significant, meaningful relationship between organizational aspects and knowledge management
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