A case study: the association between organizational culture with management knowledge in Hasheminezhad hospital - Tehran

The knowledge of management is one of the achievements in the era of information,knowledge and qualification. In this regards there are many successful organizations take advantage of knowledge management. Since changing the organizational culture is one of the most important aspects of each knowledge management system, so studying of the organizational culture features and its roles to establish of the knowledge management should be necessary.The present study attemptes to investigate the relationships between organizational culture and knowledge management in the Hasheminezhad Hospital in Tehran province. This research is a descriptive, Cross- Sectional study carried out in the summer 2009. The research population comprised all employees in Hasheminezhad Hospital. The sample size composed of 120 employees selected through Randomized- Stratified method. Standard Denison Questionnaire was used to data collection and analyzing. T-Test, Anova and pierson correlation tests applied throught SPSS software. The majority of employees in the hospital (%72) evaluated that organizational culture status in the hospital was suitable. The hospital gained was the highest score in concerning involvement and the lowest score belong to consistency. The status of knowledge management via participants was in moderate (%63). Generaally, there was a significant assosiation between organizational culture and knowledge management at p-value 0.000 and r-value 0.75 at α level 0.01. The organizational culture and knowledge management in the hospital were found as an acceptable level, which could be made the successful way of changing that might be helpful to managers to predict of prioritize systematic changes and set up of strategies to successful implementations in terms of management techniques and process.