چکیده:
Knowledge management is one of the emerging variables in organizations which has considerable effect on progress of organizations. The present research studies effect of communication skills and leadership styles of managers on establishment of knowledge management in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in 2013. The research population includes all managers of University of Medical Sciences in all levels and statistical sample of this research includes 180 managers who have been selected with Convenience sampling. Instrument of this research includes knowledge management, communication skills and leadership styles questionnaires and their validities are 0.87, 0.78 and 0.86, respectively, which are confirmed by sociology and training sciences professors. For data analysis in this test, mean and standard deviation have been used in descriptive statistics and correlation test and Kruskal–Wallis test have been used in inferential test. Findings of this research showed that Relationship oriented leadership style is found in low ranking managers and task oriented leadership style is manifested more in medium ranking managers. Communication skills in high ranking managers are higher than those in managers of other levels. Low level managers play more roles in establishment of knowledge management. One of the other findings of this research is significant correlation between knowledge management and relationship oriented leadership style and also communication skills. Therefore, communication skills and leadership styles play effective role in knowledge management and its establishment considering the obtained results.
خلاصه ماشینی:
ISSN 2382-9748 Studying Effect of Communication Skills and Leadership Styles of Manager on Knowledge Management of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences , Iran Navid Jalali Nezhad *1, Hossein Jenaabadi2 1M.
The present research studies effect of communication skills and leadership styles of managers on establishment of knowledge management in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in 2013.
Instrument of this research includes knowledge management, communication skills and leadership styles questionnaires and their validities are 0.
One of the other findings of this research is significant correlation between knowledge management and relationship oriented leadership style and also communication skills.
Therefore, communication skills and leadership styles play effective role in knowledge management and its establishment considering the obtained results.
Therefore, leadership style and ability of managers can play important role in management of an organization to establish knowledge management; therefore, considering the mentioned facts, the present research studies effect of communication skills and leadership styles of managers on establishment of knowledge management in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.
Table 5: Relationship between leadership styles and knowledge management knowledge management Variable Correlation coefficient Significance level Number Task oriented 0.
1. What is attitude of managers of different levels in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences toward task-oriented leadership style?
67 UCT Journal of Management and Accounting Studies Results of data analysis relating to Kruskal–Wallis test indicate that difference of different levels in task-oriented leadership styles is significant.
The research results showed that there was significant correlation between relationship –oriented leadership style and knowledge management.