Mediating Role of the knowledge Management in Relationship between Learning Culture and Organizational Innovation on Employees of Babol Medical Science University

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of the knowledge management in relationship between Learning Culture and organizational innovation on employees of Babol University of Medical Sciences. This study is a descriptive correlational study that is clearly based on the structural equation modeling (SEM). The participants of this study were 189 employees of Babol University of Medical Sciences that were selected via available sampling method as the sample of this study. The participants completed the organizational innovation questionnaire which is developed by Choopani et al. (2012) the learning culture questionnaire which is developed by Marsyk and Watkins (2003) and the knowledge management questionnaire developed by Nonaka (1995). The reliability and validity of these questionnaires is (p<0/0). The results of Pearson correlation showed that the learning culture, the knowledge management, and the organizational innovation are mutually correlated with each other (P<0/01). Implementing structural equation modeling for the effect of the learning culture on the organizational innovation through the knowledge management as the mediator variable, we found out that the proposed model has a good fit and the organizational innovation is affected from the learning culture when there is the knowledge management in Babol University of Medical Sciences.

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  • Receive Date: 26 November 2014
  • Revise Date: 21 May 2016
  • Accept Date: 22 August 2016

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