The relationship between leadership style and knowledge creation (Case study: Islamic Azad University of Semnan)

Knowledge is now recognized as one of the key resources contributing to competitive advantage in modern organizations. Accordingly, the ability to effectively manage the knowledge of an organizationʹs workforce is an important and contemporary challenge. While it is well known that leadership can play an important role in engendering effective knowledge management activity relatively little is known about which styles of leadership are most appropriate for this task. A survey of 250 primary knowledge in Islamic Azad University of Semnan was carried out to examine the relationship between dimensions of leadership as presented the dimensions of knowledge creation as. A significant and positive relationship between the leadership style displayed by an organizationʹs primary knowledge manager and that organizationʹs knowledge creation activity was found when that style is Transformational or Transactional.