Assessing the Influence of Knowledge Management on Learning Organization

Abstract

Change and its role in organizations, is always increasingly significant. Change requires new knowledge and advanced ways of strategic action. The purpose of this paper is to check the influence of different dimensions of knowledge management on learning organization in textile sector of Pakistan. The impact of knowledge management dimensions on learning organization is found to be statistically significant. All dimensions of knowledge management positively impact on the dimensions of learning organization according to proposed hypotheses. All results are highly significant except leadership in knowledge management that shows insignificant results for vision and strategy and work practices. The main limitation of this study is that the data are taken only from textile organizations of Faisalabad to represent the textile sector of Pakistan.

Keywords: Knowledge management, Learning organization.