Investigating the Effect of Organizational Culture on Organizational Performance: Emphasizing the Role of Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Agility with Balanced Score Card Approach

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistance Professor, Management, University of Isfahan, Iran

2 MSc. Executive Master of Business Administration, Virtual Faculty, University of Isfahan, Iran

3 MSc. Business Management, Department of Management, University of Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Features within the organization are vital part of its success; therefore, more and more to identify these features and how they impact on the output of the rapidly changing environment of today, it seems imperative. Guided by the knowledge of the organization is the function of a human and organizational culture. Knowledge management is the practice of corporate culture and how to build a cultural change, in need of innovation in knowledge management. The surveying in agility, with emphasis on the core knowledge can make a huge leap in agility and high performance organizations. The purpose of this study is to design a model to examine the impact of organizational culture, knowledge sharing and organizational agility on governor of Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari performance. This study according to purpose is applied and according to method is descriptive - survey. Data from a sample of 274 persons of employees the Governor of Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari collected and relationship between construct research models was tested using structural equation modeling. The results show that organizational culture has an impact on knowledge sharing. As well as knowledge sharing impact on organizational agility and factors such as organizational agility and knowledge sharing influence on organizational performance. So according to the organizational culture and factors influencing the development of knowledge sharing and organizational agility can help increase organizational performance.
 
 

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