The Impact of Creativity on Organizational Knowledge Management Processes

In modern economics, knowledge is the main source for economical and industrial development. Knowledge consists of subjective ideas, realities, concepts, data and techniques recorded in human memory which originates from the human brain and is based on information gathered by individual experience, beliefs and values along with their decisions and actions. Knowledge management consists of a set of processes for understanding and utilizing the strategic knowledge source within an organization. The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between Knowledge Management (KM) processes and creativity among knowledge based companies’ personnel. This study was conducted using the correlation method. The statistical population consisted of 2000 persons in companies as mentioned where 100 were chosen by using stratified randomized sampling. The results indicate that there are no positive and significant relationships between the KM process dimensions and creativity (in spite other related researches in this field) at every stage, because the acceptance and implementation of knowledge management among the middle persons in the creativity test were the lowest, but the best persons in creativity test had superior knowledge management process at every stage.

Knowledge Management, Creativity, Tacit, explicit.