The Impact of Knowledge Management Processes on Organizational Innovation with the Mediating Role of Human Resource Productivity

Organizational innovation is recognized as an important tool for organizations to compete in a competitive environment And Organizations in all business aspects are trying to consider the processes of knowledge management and human resource management as valuable and strategic assets for the development of organizational innovation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Knowledge management processes on organizational innovation with the mediator role of human resource productivity. This research has been applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive-survey method. The statistical population included all the employees working in the Tadbir Investment Company and subsidiary companies, which added to 270 people. The sampling method was random sampling. Using Cochran’s formula 158 people were chosen as the sample size. To gather the data standard questionnaires The processes of knowledge management, organizational innovation and human resource productivity have been used by Shujahat et al. (2019), the validity of which has been confirmed through content and its reliability through Cronbach''s alpha, 0/785, 0/768 and 0/805 respectively. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was adopted for data analysis. The validation of the structural model was achieved using SmartPLS. The results indicated that knowledge management processes have a positive and significant effect on organizational innovation and human resource productivity. Also the results provide evidence of the mediating effect of human resource productivity between Knowledge Management Processes and Organizational Innovation. Therefore, we must pay special attention to it in the organization.