Consideration of Relationship Between the Dimensions of Organizational Culture and Dimensions of Knowledge Management in Tehran Government Suspended of Iran. (Case Study)

In this research, the relation between the organizational culture and knowledge management in Tehran government suspended was studied. According to the importance of knowledge management, we studied the status of the mentioned organization in this regard. For this purpose, the cultural components related to this organization were investigated and after evaluating different factors and models, Hofstede’s cultural model was chose which consists of four dimensions of power distance, uncertainty avoidance, collectivism/individualism and, masculinity/femininity. In addition, for evaluating the current status of knowledge management, HicKs’s knowledge management model with four dimensions of knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, knowledge maintenance and knowledge application was used. For 60-person population, 50 questionnaires were prepared as samples based on Morganʹs table. The answers in the questionnaires were extracted and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS software. Accordingly, the research hypotheses which consist of one major hypothesis and 16 secondary hypotheses were studied. Subsequently, the research hypotheses were verified by the Spirmanʹs correlation test and their meaningfulness were proved. It was observed that, three cultural dimensions: power distance, collectivism/individualism and masculinity/femininity have a direct relation with dimensions of knowledge management (knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, and knowledge maintenance and knowledge application).