بررسي تاثير مديريت دانش بر تقويت توان رقابتي شركت هاي مهندسين مشاور

The impact of knowledge management on competitive power of the consulting engineers companies

In recent situations of vocation sphere in which the sophistication is the dominant paradigm and the instability and variety are the main elements of this paradigm, organizations to solve the problems and challenges of the situation and to survive and success in competitive environment require to instrument which the knowledge management is the most important of them. Consulting engineers companies are the main scientific polar of building sphere in the country which their services are based on the knowledge of their employers and the knowledge is the main capital of them. So the proper and useful management of this capital is the main factor of success of these companies in competitive sphere of construction projects. This correlation survey is to study the way of impact of knowledge management on the competitive power of the consulting engineers companies. To do so, after studying the previous surveys in the matter and theoretical basis of the subject, the conceptual model of the survey has been design according to five elements in knowledge management and four elements for competitive power. Gathering data, two questionnaires with 24 questions for the evaluation of the knowledge management variable and 29 questions for the evaluation of the competitive power variable have been distributed among 42 consulting engineers companies. Analyzing questionnairesʹ data by the software and D. Summers Correlation coefficient show that there is correlation between independent variable (knowledge management) and dependant variable (competitive power, human resources management system, innovation technology management, customer orientation of market oriented and organizational function). At last the methods of this kind of impacts have been studied. Keywords: knowledge management, competitive power, consulting engineers companies, human resources management system, innovation technology management, customer orientation of market oriented and organizational function