assessing cultural readiness of organization for successful implementation of knowledge managment, appling fmcdm approach: case of central bank of iran

supportive organizational culture for knowledge management can vouch for successful implementation of knowledge management. in the case of lacking this kind of supportive culture, the organizational culture is one of the obstacles which can lead the implementation of knowledge management to full failure and waste of organizational assets. in this research, a framework based on fmcdm was utilized to assess the cultural readiness of organization as the knowledge management implementation prerequisite. this framework has been utilized to assess central bank of iran’s cultural readiness. the methodology of research was descriptive and research data were gathered by questionnaire and were answered by experts and cbi executives. in this term, the cultural readiness of cbi was assessed and in accordance with this assessment, embarking on corrective action was proposed.