Investigating the relationship between the development of knowledge management and organizational innovation in Maragheh municipality

Abstract

This article was conducted with the aim of investigating the strategies of creating and developing knowledge management with organizational innovation in Maragheh Municipality. Research variables include strategies for creating and developing knowledge management, including system-oriented strategies, human-oriented strategies, and hybrid strategies (as independent variables) and innovation with seven dimensions of environmental innovation, leadership innovation, personal innovation, environmental feedback, individual feedback, feedback interpersonal and evidence-based learning (as dependent variable). A main hypothesis and three sub-hypotheses were proposed for this purpose, and a questionnaire containing 45 questions was prepared and adjusted to answer the research questions. Also, construct validity was checked and confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. In order to check the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha method was used and the value of the reliability coefficient was calculated to be 0.959, which indicates the high reliability of the data collection tool. The statistical population of the research included 1360 employees of Maragheh Municipality, and the statistical sample was calculated using Morgan's table to be 300 tons. The sampling method is simple random. After distributing and collecting the questionnaires, statistical analysis was done in the form of descriptive and inferential parts with spss and lisrel software.