Investigating the relationship between knowledge management and employees’ empowerment in agriculture bank of Tehran.

Abstract

The purpose of current study is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and employees’ empowerment in Agriculture Bank of Tehran Province. Method is descriptive-survey and correlation type. Statistical population of the research is all employees of Agriculture Bank in Tehran that are 2800 employees. A sample of 338 respondents was selected based on Kochran’s formula and simple random sampling approach. In this research, two questionnaires of knowledge management and employees’ empowerment were used that their reliability has been confirmed by Cronbakh’s alpha of 0.88 and 0.91, respectively. Validity was also confirmed by experts’ views. Data was analyzed by Spearman test and analysis of variance with SPSS software. It was shown that there is a significant relationship between knowledge management and the dimensions of employees’ empowerment.

Keywords: Employees’ empowerment, Knowledge management, Agriculture Bank