investigating the impact of organizational culture and knowledge management on organizational effectiveness in small and medium industries

bahram jabbarzadeh karbasi¹ zahra sasanian asl²

1) PhD student of Business management, University of Allameh Tabatabai
2) Expert and lecturer at Technical and Vocational Training Organization, Ministry of cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare

IOI Code : XYCG-AEBCK
Publication : international conference of Management Elites(icme.ir)
Abstract :
    Today one of the necessities for Bing successful among the organizational world is attending to effectiveness of the under leading assortment and for this propose knowledge management activities play an innovative role, that can impact on organizational effectiveness. So, this study’s goal is to investigate the effect of organizational culture on organizational effectiveness in the small and medium size companies of Kerman province and knowledge management considered as mediator variable. The survey method that used in this research is descriptive and questionnaires that used for data collecting and reliability calculated by using Cronbach s alpha and the reliability coefficients for knowledge management, organizational effectiveness and organizational culture are equal to 0.88, 0.82, 0.85 respectively and 0.84 for entire. Static society in this study is employees’ small and medium size companies of Kerman province. Statistical sample is 155 people that was calculated by using the Morgan schedule. For analyzing data AMOS 18 and SPSS 17 software were used. The results show that organizational culture impacts on organizational effectiveness. On the other hand the mediating role of knowledge management in organizational effectiveness is confirmed. Also At the end of study, managerial implication is suggested.

Keywords : knowledge management organizational culture organizational effectiveness structural equation modeling