An Empirical Study of Impact of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management Practices

Abstract

This study aims to examine the impact of corporate culture on knowledge management methods, including knowledge acquisition, knowledge conversion, knowledge application, and knowledge preservation. Organizational culture is the fundamental source of inspiration for personnel to behave in some desired way. Knowledge management practices in absence of supportive culture will fail to achieve desired outcomes because technology cannot replace human being. A questionnaire is designed on the basis of construct adopted from existing literature. Data is collected from five organizations with response rate of 63% as only 256 respondents replied out of 410. Data analysis is done through SPSS and AMOS. The outcomes of this study indicate that organizational culture significantly enhances knowledge management activities, including knowledge collection, conversion, application, and preservation. This study will enhance both theoretical and practical understanding by elucidating the influence of organizational culture on knowledge management techniques inside organizations. It will also contribute theoretically in existing literature. This study has also some future implications as improved knowledge management in an organization can results in better organizational performance and future studies can be conducted in this regard by considering other organizational factors. Similarly mediating effect in this relationship can also be studied.