Meta-analysis of the role of knowledge management in organizational learning

In most organizations around the world, managers seek to improve the performance of their organizations. Brahmit's management research emphasizes knowledge management and organizational learning in improving performance. Possessing up-to-date knowledge and information and innovative behavior in professors is one of the basic concerns of university administrators. This research is designed to describe, analyze and synthesize the information presented in the context of investigating the role of knowledge management on organizational learning. Meta-analysis by integrating the results of different researches that have been carried out on several samples; It gives a more comprehensive view of the effect of various variables. In fact, by putting together the results of a research on a sample of a community, different people are examined. Such findings are important and more important in societies, such as ours, which has more diversity; because this variety brings more differences, inevitably, one should have a lot of information from different examples of this society in order to obtain the similarities and deal with the differences in an appropriate way by integrating this information.

The method of this research is meta-analysis. The statistical population of the current research consists of all written documents, including theses, researches, and articles included in Persian scientific research journals with a topic related to the role of knowledge management on organizational learning. The documents collected between 1386 and 1401 were written. Published works were searched in Magiran database, Google Scholar, IranDoc, Academic Jihad Scientific Information Center database. Among the 67 articles searched, 10 articles were excluded due to the title not being relevant, 7 articles due to the inappropriateness of the abstract, 8 articles due to the inappropriateness of the content, and the analysis work was done with 42 articles and theses. Data analysis was done with meta-analysis method and with the help of CMA 3 software. To measure the effect size, tests (X2), (t), (Z), (F) and the index (Hedges' g) and (Z) Fisher were used and to measure the publication bias, a funnel plot was used.

The meta-analysis results showed that knowledge management with organizational learning has an average effect size of 0.556, which shows a higher than average relationship between the two variables. Organizational learning can be improved by improving knowledge management. Because when knowledge is managed in organizations based on principles and knowledge is created based on organizational needs, it can be predicted that learning will happen in the organization and if organizational knowledge enters the organization regardless of educational needs, it will not be accepted by individuals and so, this is not in the interest of the organization.

The results of combining the size of the primary researches indicate the confirmation of the role of knowledge management on organizational learning, which is higher according to Cohen's criteria. Also, the results of variance analysis indicate a significant difference between the effect rate of knowledge management and organizational learning.