The Relationship between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Strategy in Pars Oil Company

The main goal of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management strategy in Pars Oil Company. In order to achieve this goal, Dennison model is used. This model has four main dimension including adoptability, involvement, mission and consistency. For evaluating these major dimensions, three indicators are defined and the creation and transferring the knowledge have been considered as components of knowledge management strategies. The statistical population the research contains 53 administrators and experts of the above organization. The statistical sampling is 45 people based on Morgan chart. Tool of reliability is a questionnaire calculated by Cronbach's alpha 94% approving the validity by judgment method. In this test, Spearman correlation coefficient is used to test the hypotheses. Data analysis represented that there are significant relationships between four dimensions of knowledge management strategies (creation and transfer of knowledge) to organizational culture in the organization and Friedman method is used to determining the importance of organizational culture to four dimensions. The results of the ranking factors influencing the knowledge management strategy indicates that the priority and importance of organizational culture based on the effect on knowledge management strategy(creation and transfer of knowledge) are as participation culture, adoptability culture, consistency culture and mission culture consequently.