The impact of strategic knowledge on employee’s innovation andFinancial performance: a case of Maskan bank in Iran

The present paper has been conducted with the aim of studying the effect of strategic knowledge management on employee’s innovation and financial performance in Maskan Bank of Iran. It is an applied and survey research. The research population includes all the employees of the branches of Maskan Bank in the west region of Tehran. For this purpose, closed questionnaires having 5 options (standard questionnaire of strategic knowledge management of Carolina Lopez and Angel Mirono containing 8 questions and the standard questionnaire of innovation of Dorabji et al. containing 50 questions and the standard questionnaire of financial performance containing 5 indices and 24 questions) have been used. For this purpose, close questionnaires with 5 options (strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) have been used. The research questionnaire contained a total number of 81 closes questions. The validity of the present questionnaire has been tested based on content validity and its reliability has been calculated based on Cronbach’s alpha which is equal to 95%. The sample volume has been calculated based on the Cochran’s formula which is obtained to be equal to 244 employees of the branches of Maskan Bank of the west region of Tehran (including 181 male and 63 female employees) and the sample has been selected with the use of simple random sampling method. For analysis of the obtained data, descriptive statistics (frequency table) and inferential statistics (correlation coefficient and regression tests) have been used and the results indicate that there is a significant and positive correlation between the dual dimensions of strategic knowledge management, employee’s innovation and financial performance. Also the dual dimensions of strategic knowledge management (coding strategy and privatization strategy) have an effective role on innovation and financial performance of the employees of Iran’s Maskan Bank . In other words, dual dimensions of strategic knowledge management (coding strategy and privatization strategy) have a significant effect on innovation and financial performance of the employees Iran’s Maskan Bank.

Keywords:

strategic knowledge management , employee’s innovation and financial performance , Maskan Bank of Iran