Effects of organizational culture, structure and strategy on organizational effectiveness by using knowledge management Case Study: Seven International Transportation Company
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
Today, one of the most important and valuable assets at any organization is organizational knowledge. Therefore, organizations seek to identify crucial factors and an effectual bed to make knowledge management, and while enhancing organizational effectiveness, take maximum advantage of their knowledge of resources and environment. Therefore the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of organizational culture, structure and strategy on the effectiveness of organization through knowledge management. The present study is applied in terms of objective and is of a correlative-descriptive type in terms of data collection. The study statistical community is composed of all employees and managers (300 persons) in international transportation company Seven. The study sample includes 200 employees and managers. To gather data, library studies and questionnaires were used. Data analysis and hypotheses testing were performed using structural equation model and particularly path analysis technique using LISREL software. The study results indicated that knowledge management acts as a mediator between the effects of organizational culture on organizational effectiveness, and partially acts as a mediator between the effect of structure and strategy on organizational effectiveness. The findings imply that one of the important factors in organizations for achieving organizational effectiveness and achieving successful knowledge management is taking privilege of a culture best suited for that particular organization. Finally, the output of the software represents the suitability of the model.
Authors and Affiliations
Razieh naserinajafabady| MA Student of Executive Management, Kermanshah Islamic Azad University, Department of Sciences and Research Unit, Kermanshah, Iran. email: raz.nas1366@gmail.com, Hassan Rangriz| Associate Professor of Business Administration, faculty of management university of Economic, NO, 66, Roudsar Ave, Hafez Ave, p.o., Javad Mehrabi| Assistant professor, faculty of management& Accounting, Qazvin branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran,NO.1,Daneshgah Ave,p.o.
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