International Journal Of Research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 1

A survey of the relation between social capital and managers’ effectiveness with the development of knowledge management in state organizations of Nour-Abad-e-Mamasani, Iran

  • Author:
  • Alireza Moughelia, Fatemeh Rah Anjamb, Touran Khalouyib
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 371 to 377

aProfessor, Department of public administration, Payame Noor University, Po Box 19395-3697, Tehran, Iran

bMA. Student, Department of Public Administration, Payame Noor University, Po Box 19395-3697, Tehran, Iran

Online published on 15 March, 2014.

Abstract

The organizations of the present age work in a thoroughly competitive atmosphere that their staff is the most important capital for them. The benefit of the lasting and continuing competitive atmosphere of organizations is to have initiative, knowledge-seeker and innovator who are able to create lasting priority and benefits in the function and procedures through reforms and deliberate changes. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the relation between social capital and managers’ effectiveness with the development of knowledge management in state organizations of Nour-Abad-e-Mamasani. Statistic society is the 510 people of state organizations of Nour-Abad-e-Mamasani and this procedure is proportional to the size of questionnaire societies. The method and way of present research from application and nature point of view is a correlation one: To collect the information of social capital questionnaire, managers’ effectiveness and knowledge management were used. The performance rate of this sample is respectively %79, %78, and %82 estimated. The findings of this research indicated that there is a positive and meaningful correlation between social capitals and their aspects (colleagues’ unity, co-workers’ participations, colleagues’ mutual confidence, and mutual visions of being sense of future) and knowledge management development, with a significance level of %95. As well, there is a positive and significant relation between knowledge management development and managers’ effectiveness.

Keywords

Social capital, managers’ effectiveness, and knowledge management