Impact of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management

Nowadays, the organizational culture as an underlying infrastructure plays a key role in implementation of knowledge management system in every organization. In the present study, the association between organizational culture as an independent variable and knowledge management as a dependent variable is explored in Water and Wastewater Company of RazaviKhorasan Province. Denison’s model is chosen for analysis of diverse aspects of organizational culture and Wiig’s model is selected for examination of different dimensions of knowledge management. The identification of items and selection of proper factors to study the organizational culture are followed by developing five hypotheses to analyze their relationship. To test the hypotheses, a sample of 50 individuals among the managers and employees of the company is defined through stratified random sampling. After verification of data symmetry through Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Spearman’s correlation coefficient, the hypotheses of correlation among the variables are tested. The obtained results support all of the developed hypotheses of present study and as a result, the existence of a significant association between organizational culture and different processes and aspects of knowledge management in this company is supported.