The study of training impact on knowledge management and organizational performance

Human resources are invaluable assets for firms desiring to achieve Knowledge Management (KM) goals and improve of Organizational Performance (OP). So Training of Human Resources (THR), KM and OP are believed to be the essential of success in business. Different results in literatures declare KM affects organizational performance positively. But there are still some confusing relations between KM and THR. Accordingly, we propose some hypotheses to verify relationships among THR, KM and OP. Present study is practical, descriptive and is of correlative type. Hence, hypotheses of the study will be analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis, and Tests of Fit. The population of this study is "all staffs of Kharg Petrochemical Complex (KPC) in Iran. The results show that the training of human resources is effective on achieving the objectives of knowledge management and organizational performance. Therefore, it is recommended that to improve productivity in organizations, national and international markets companies should take steps to improve knowledge- based organizational human resources training.