Investigating the Relationship between Ethical Climate and Organizational Knowledge Creation(Birjand University of Medical Sciences)

Introduction Present research has studied a training organization as one of the most important organizations in case of its activities. . This study investigated the relationship between ethical climate and its subscales with organizational knowledge creation and the relationship between these two variables that evaluated in the process to better adapt to the environment and community service organizations. In today's world full of change, organizational knowledge is becoming the competitive advantage of organizations. Knowledge creation supports organization in today's complex environment, make it able to dominate other organizations, and is a pioneer in various fields of activity. There are different organizational ethical climate that affect employee behavior and their participation in the activities of Knowledge Management. This research tries to study same relationship.
Case study Birjand University of Medical Sciences is one of the most important medical universities in east of Iran. In this study, the researcher is trying to answer this question in this university that whether the ethical climate and organizational knowledge creation among the staff of the university have a relationship together.
Materials and Methods This study according its goal is an applicable research. According to the data collection methods, this study is a descriptive and correlational research. This research is a survey. The statistical population of the study includes deputy and headquarters staff of Birjand University of Medical Sciences consist of 290 people. A sample of 165 participants was determined according to Morgan table. The standard questionnaires used to collect data of organizational ethical climate and organizational knowledge creation. The data analysis performed through appropriate statistical methods such as Spearman's Correlation coefficient and Multiple Regression Analysis by the software of SPSS 19.
Discussion and Results The results showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between the ethical climate of the organization and knowledge creation. Moreover, the six dimensions of ethical climate (instrumental, caring, independence, moral, ethical codes, codes of ethics and ethical performance) had positive and significant relationship with knowledge creation.
Conclusion The results suggested that improving the organization ethics; provide the basis for improving knowledge creation in organizations.