Survey of the Impact of knowledge Management in the Personnel Creativity of Gas Company in Uremia City

Subject Areas : Biannual Journal of Value Chain Management

Tahereh daneshfar ¹ (دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد، گروه مدیریت فناوری اطلاعات، موسسه آموزش عالی المیزان، تبریز، ایران.)
Assadollah khadivi ² (استادیار دانشگاه فرهنگیان، تبریز، ایران.)

Received: 2016-05-29 Accepted : 2016-08-19 Published : 2016-08-22

Keywords: creativity, knowledge management, Explicit Knowledge, hidden knowledge,

Abstract :

Organizations need to knowledge management for remaining in the competition, with the changing environment of innovation, responding to market demands, improving individuals and their potential and maintain good communications with providers, customers and partners. The knowledge management causes we access to the experiences, knowledge and skills that in general, they create new abilities, power of execution of more operation, encouragement of creativity and innovation, better ways of applying existing knowledge of Organization, and better use of knowledge in the process of day-to-day business in the Organization. In the present study, we tried to investigate the impact of knowledge management on the personnel creativity of Gas Company. Statistical population of this study was personnel of Gas Company and we used questionnaire to collect research data. Number of 186 questionnaires was collected from the Statistical sample. To investigate approval or disapproval of hypothesizes and survey of overall fit of the model was used tests, analysis of data according to these tests and PLS software and assumptions and models were evaluated using three criteria R2, significant numbers t(t-values) and standard criterion of GOF. Also were used descriptive and inferential statistics. The obtained results of testing hypotheses showed that knowledge management has a positive effect on personnel creativity. 

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