The Effect of Knowledge Management and its Elements on Organizational Personnel Performance

The establishment of knowledge management in organizations as an organizational strategy is necessary and pivotal. The essential factor for organizational success includes extensive organizationa ideas like strategic, economic, behavioral and managerial innovations. Managing organizational knowledge is one of the most important organizational success factors in competitive and information era. The purpose of the study is to review the effect of knowledge management and its elements on personnel performance. It has an applied purpose and descriptive and correlation method and data is collected by questionnaire and survey method. Statistical population includes staff of combined cycle powerhouse of Yazd and accidental categorical sampling method was used among whom 116 samples were accepted. The data analysis was done via Structural equations and SPSS 18 and LISREL 8.72; the findings showed that knowledge production had significant effect on the performance of organization, and the relation between knowledge adoption and organizational performance was also proved

knowledge management, knowledge adoption, knowledge sharing and transfer, knowledge production, knowledge reserve, personnel performance