A Study Of The Relationship Between Knowledge Management Performance And Organizational Culture

As a new management model, Knowledge Management (KM) has been world widely applied in recent years and its influence on organizational core competitive power has been proved in various organizations, such as corporations, governments or scientific research institutions. Therefore, organizations pay more and more attention on KM. However, due to the ignorance of the deep influence of organizational culture on organizational KM, many KM programs didn't achieve the anticipated management target of an organization. In order to solve this problem, by using qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as deduction and induction, descriptive statistical analysis, factor analysis and regression analysis, the paper conducts theoretical exploration and research on the following aspects: the concerned concepts and theories of the organizational culture in KM, the mechanism of the organizational culture in KM, the influence of the organizational culture in KM, the innovation of the organizational culture in KM. The paper tries to find effective ways to improve organizational performance through the adaptation and innovation of organizational culture. The main contents are as follows:1. The basic concepts and theories involved in the study of organizational culture in KM. The paper reviews the present research of the organizational culture in knowledge management both home and abroad. It explains the basic concepts of organizational knowledge, organizational intellectual capital, knowledge management and organizational culture. It also outlined knowledge Management factions, type and model, the content and characteristics of organizational culture in knowledge management, the assessment methods of organizational culture.2. The study of the relationships between KM and the organizational culture. The paper builds a conceptual model of organizational knowledge management, describes the environment of the organizational culture in KM, and discusses the interaction between organizational culture and knowledge management. The project of KM is retricted by organizational culture as well as it influences the content and development of organizational culture.3. The study of the influence of the organizational culture in KM and KM performance. The paper builds the evaluation system of organizational culture in KM including organizational cohesion, constructive faculty, ambitious drive and employee's vitality based on analysing the factors and the types of the organizational culture in KM. The paper builds the evaluation system of organizational KM performance including KM activities, knowledge structure, economic indicators and environmental culture of knowledge type.4. The research survey on the relationships between KM and organizational culture. The paper constructs theoretical assumptions and research model of organizational culture impact in KM and designs the questionnaire of organizational culture impact in knowledge management by using a scientific, systematic, objective, comparable and optimization principles. The paper also designs special software for online surveys. By using regression analysis to analyze the collected survey data, it gets the following conclusions: there is a positive correlation between the performance of emphasizing personalization knowledge management and the openness of organizational culture, there is a positive correlation between the performance of emphasizing codification knowledge management and the cohesion of organizational culture.5. The strategic study of the organizational culture construction in KM. The paper establishes the principle of organizational culture construction for KM, discusses the modes of organizational culture construction for KM, designs the steps of organizational culture construction for KM. It also verifies patterns and steps of organizational culture building for KM by actual case studies of TX Company.