Relationship Between Organizational Structure and Knowledge Management Among of PE Managers in Mazandaran Province Universities

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to relationship between organizational structure and knowledge management among of PE Managers in Mazandaran Province University's. The method of this research was descriptive-survey and correlation. First data gathered by field method via censes of staff managers of physical education organization by two questionnaires. The content validity of these questionnaires was confirmed by officers of management faculty of university of Tehran and their reliabilities were obtained by Cronbach's alpha again (KM=0.89 and organizational structure=0.86). Finally 92 questionnaires were returned and analyzed (n=120). Results were optioned by SPSS22 in tow levels of descriptive (internal tendency, variability) and inferential (Spearman and Pearson correlation) Statistics. The results showed significant relationship between formalization with knowledge creation and transfer (p=0.011) (p= 0.006) and high level of formalization with down levels of creation and transfer of knowledge were correlated (r= -0.381) (r= -0.241). The relationships between centralization and creation and transfer of knowledge were significant (p=0.012) (p=0.001) and high level of centralization with down levels of creation and transfer of knowledge were correlated (r= -0.421) (r= -0.525). There was no significant relationship between complexity and knowledge creation (p=0.063) but the relationship between complexity and knowledge transfer was significant (p= 0.032) that high level of complexity correlated with high level of knowledge transfer (r= -0.229).The relationship between creation and transfer of knowledge was significant (p=0.001) which high levels of those were correlated (r=0.677). With corrective of organizational structure can provide field for application of knowledge management.

Knowledge Management, Organizational Structure, University's PE Managers.