THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The current study has the basic purpose of finding out the impact of knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing, storage of knowledge and organizational learning on the organizational performance of oil and gas sector of UAE. The data for this purpose was collected by administering the questionnaires as distributed among different managers and employees of the ADNOC, UAE. However, only 374 useable responses were obtained by the researcher for analysis purpose. The researcher has applied various techniques and tools on the collected data for various purposes such as to find out response rate, nonresponse bias, common method variance, goodness of measurement tests such as composite reliability, convergent and discriminant validity. In addition, the most important test used is structural equation modeling through PLS to find the direct relationships. The results have indicated that the direct impact of knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing, organizational learning and organizational innovation is significant on the organizational performance. In this way all the results have been interpreted in accordance with the acceptance and rejection of the hypotheses of the study. The researcher has identified various theoretical, practical and policy making implications of the study. In the last, different limitations and future research indications have also been discussed.