The Relationship between Knowledge Management and Learning Organization of Faculty Members at Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch in Academic year. (2010-2011)

AbstractThis Research deals with the Relationship between knowledge management of the faculty members of the Islamic Azad university, Shiraz Branch and organizational Learning. For this purpose the researchers used two kinds of questionnaires, namely, knowledge management suggested by Bokoteiz and William (1999) and the validity and Reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by the Researchers and the Result was acceptable according to Cronbach alpha and the correlation coefficient was about 74% and the second questionnaire was organizational Leaning proposed by Anona Armestrong and Patrick fouly (1988). This questionnaire also showed acceptable reliability and validity. The Researchers Analyzed the Relationship between all elements of knowledge management (Knowledge achievement, Knowledge application, Knowledge evaluation, Knowledge creation, and confirmation) and organizational learning. The statistical population of this Research was 261 members from which 155 were participated and 140 ones totally answered the questionnaires’ items. In both, inferential and descriptive statistics were used in this research. The Results show that there is a positive and meaningful Relationship between knowledge management's elements and organizational learning. Base on the research method and the nature of the study, the present research is descriptive kind of correlation and also the Person correlation was used