Influence of Organizational Culture on Knowledge Management Measures (case Study: the Social Security Administration of Lorestan Province)

This study aimed to investigate the influence of organizational culture on the knowledge management measures in Department of Social Security in Lorestan; the methodology is an applied, descriptive/survey, in terms of objective, the nature and methods, respectively and it is a fieldwork one; the statistical population consisted of N=380 employees of the Social Security Administration of Lorestan that the sample of n=181 was selected by the relative stratified random method using Morgan’s sample-size determination table. To collect data, a standard questionnaire of Lawson’s knowledge management practices assessment (2003) and that of Robbins’ organizational culture impact assessment (1997) have been used. The collected data was analyzed by statistical/Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, the simple linear regression and structural equations modeling technique with help of SPSS and Amos. Findings show that the organizational culture and its components affect the knowledge management measures.