Investigation of the Relationship between Knowledge Management and Organizational Creativity with Staff Productivity (Case Study: Iranshahr Steam Power Plant)

In today's era, the most important investments of an organization are the knowledge, creativity and organizational performance of its employees. Power plants, also similar to other organizations, need knowledge-oriented, creative and innovative staff to survive and progress. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and organizational creativity with staff productivity at the Iranshahr steam power plant. The statistical population of this study involves all employees of Iranshahr steam power plant. The sample size was estimated to be 183 people, according to Morgan table with maintaining safety margin, and it was selected by using random sampling method. Finally, data taken from a number of 183 questionnaires have been used. In order to collecting data, the questionnaires of Conrad and Neumann Knowledge Management, Helalian Motlagh & Hasan Zadeh’s Creativity questionnaire, and Hershey and Gold Smith’s Productivity questionnaire, this had acceptable validity and reliability. SPSS software was used for statistical analysis. The results obtained from data analysis showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between knowledge management variables and organizational creativity with employee productivity. Among the dimensions of knowledge management, the knowledge save dimension, and among the dimensions of organizational creativity, the Competence of human resources dimensions have the most relationship with employee productivity. We propose that managers create a culture of knowledge-based learning and apply organizational learning techniques.