Study of Content Factors of Knowledge Management (KM)In the Indian Automobile Industry

Knowledge Management has become the most strategic resource in the new business environment. For years, the evaluation of knowledge management (KM) performance has become increasingly important since it directly provides the reference for directing the strategic organization learning and, by which the capabilities are generated to match the requirement to enhance enterprise competitiveness. In recent years, knowledge management has been an important and critical matter. Knowledge has been counted as one of the organizational resources and their achievement depend on their ability in establishing, storing, transition and use of knowledge. The most important content factors of knowledge-oriented organizations are structure, information technology and culture. Because of it, the purpose in this research is about content factors of knowledge management in Automobile industry in Maharashtra state in India. Method of this research is descriptive and survey. To assess of research's variables used researcher-designed questionnaire with 35 questions. Researcher has visited database of automotive component manufacturers association of India (ACMA) and Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturing (SIAM).Mail questionnaire sent to 250 top and middle managers of manufacturing and auto-components industries in Maharashtra. Data analysis is conducted by SPSS software and one-sample T test. It distinguished however, sufficient conditions are ready to information technology already, and company has no enough suitable structure and culture to perform knowledge management. In addition, Pearson correlation is used to determine of causal relation and Freedman test to rank. Finally, there are some suggestions to perform knowledge management in Automobile Industry and about achieve to missions, advance of science and technology in Automobile Industry.