Surveying the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Case Study: Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies

This research aims to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in the Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies. The research’s method was descriptive-correlational. Data collection tool was designing the research’s questionnaires based on the Denison Organizational Culture Model and Knowledge Management Assessment Tools. The research’s statistical population consisted of 100 persons of managers, staff, and students of the Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, who were selected via random sampling method, and 100 persons were selected as sample through simple random sampling method. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used. Results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management. Also, the findings obtained from the research’s sub-hypothesis show that organizational mission, organizational adaptability, organizational compatibility, organizational participation have positive and significant relationship with knowledge management. Reviewing the status of organizational culture and knowledge management variables show that organizational culture possesses a satisfactory status in the studied organization, but knowledge management’s status was not very satisfying.