Study of the Relationship between Knowledge Management and Managers’ Empowerment in Urmia Payame Noor University

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present study is to survey relationship between knowledge management and managers’ empowerment which includes achievement of revenue and better executed duties, increasing ability and efficiency of management, the ability of managers to create ideas and new solutions, determination of the influence of knowledge management on empowerment of managers for male and female. The research method is descriptive survey. The statistical population consists of all managers of Urmia Payame Noor University. The number of all managers was 98 and the size of the statistical sample was 98. The instrument for data gathering is the questionnaire which the validity and the reliability is calculated. After distributing the questionnaires and collecting the data, SPSS software was used with two methods of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics including of one sample T-test for hypotheses number 1, 2, 3, in depended t-test used for hypothesis number 4. The obtained results of this research consists of: knowledge management, increases the managers ability to achieve revenue and better execution duties, increase the ability and efficiency, such as creating ideas’ profitable and new ideas and solutions. The effect of knowledge management on empowering managers in each of two groups (male and

Knowledge Management, Managers’ empowerment, Managers’ efficiency ability, Payame