The impact of knowledge management and organization learning on organizational innovation: The case of the greater Amman Municipality in Jordan

• Main Author: Ababneh, Raed Ismail
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: JS Local government Municipal government
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/11423/1/601-609-CR33.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/11423/; http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/

Organizations are forced to manage knowledge and to learn faster than competitors.This study aims at exploring the impact of knowledge management and organizational learning on organizational innovation as perceived by the employees of Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan.A random sample of 255 employees was selected to answer the designated questionnaire.The study findings show that both knowledge management and organizational learning explain about 59% of the variation of organizational innovation. Results, also, show that knowledge management and organizational learning has a strong positive correlation with organizational innovation.Further, the findings reveal that variables of (job title, age, training course, nature of job) have a significance impact on practicing each dimension. Finally, the analysis reveals that education level and department size factors have no significant impact on all variables of the study.