Knowledge Management and Organizational Resilience Organizational Learning as a Mediator in Iranian Public Organizations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to report the findings of the mediating effect of organizational learning in the relationship between knowledge management and organizational resilience. The study adopts a cross-sectional design to collect data used to carry out mediation analysis. As samples of the study 28 Iranian public organizations were selected. The survey was conducted among middle and senior managers and respondents were asked to express their opinions concerning roll of organizational learning as mediator in relationship between management and organizational resilience. Knowledge management and organizational learning as well are effective on increasing organizational resilience. However, in terms of mediating role of organizational learning findings were not similar to the result of previous studies. Organizational learning as mediator cannot have effective roll in increasing organizational resilience. Utilizing a cross-sectional design along with questionnaire is one of the limitations of the study. The results may be different in the private sector. A future research strategy that may overcome this limitation is one that involves longitudinal studies in which flow of study variables can be viewed over time. In addition, applying objective data, measures, archival data for some variables, may lead in more objective results.

Keywords: Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, Organizational Resilience, Public Section Organizations