INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT WITH ORGANIZATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS(CASE STUDY)

International Conference on General Practice & Hospital Management

December 8-9, 2016 | Dubai, UAE

Davood Salmani, Mina Beig, Arezoo Salmani and Yaser Ghorbanzad

Management College, Tehran

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Gen Practice

Abstract :

This study aimed to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of knowledge management and employee empowerment with organizational entrepreneurship. Data was collected through Knowledge Management questionnaires of Nonaka & Takeuchi, Spritzer employee empowerment questionnaire and entrepreneurship Hughes and Morgan questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling have been used to assess the structural model which interpreted by LISREL.Using structural equation model across 210 samples of Iran Behnoush Company employees, we found that, knowledge management and employee empowerment latent variables directly or indirectly impressed entrepreneurship, and also that, The higher level of employee�s empowerment and knowledge leads to higher probability of entrepreneurship in organizations. According to the results, due to the great influence of these two variables , paying attention to them,would play an important role in promoting entrepreneurship in organizations and it should be considered in the planning process of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Biography :

Email: Article_salmani@yahoo.com