THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICAL CLIMATE ON EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS, IN GUILAN ORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND FINANCE, AND TAX DEPARTMENT

Abstract

In recent years, knowledge management has been used as an essential strategy to develop

providing organizational intellectual capital. Organizational intellectual capital can be obtained,

both individually and collectively, in a process to create, store, share, acquisition, and

deployment of individual and organizational knowledge. However, some organizations, despite

of concerns that are due to incidence of individual selfishness, will just focus on development of

public interest. Various aspect of individual and peripheral vision about knowledge management,

essentially will lead to moral conflicts and ethical culture in the organization. The purpose of this

study will be investigating the impact of organizational ethical climate on employees’

perceptions of value, as well as their activities in knowledge management. The results indicate

that there is a variety of organizational ethical climate in the organization, and their impact on

employee’s behavior, as well as their participation in knowledge management activities is

different; and as well as it suggests that ethical culture is the most important priority of

knowledge management in an organization, that lack of attention to it will lead to knowledge

accumulation and potential not using this resource in the organization. The studied universe of

this paper is Employees of Guilan Organization of Economic Affairs and Finance, and Tax

Department. Research method is descriptive – correlation method, and the method of data

analyzing is inferential. In addition, data collection is based on field method and its tool is

questionnaire. Samples have been selected through simple random sampling, and the research

hypotheses have been analyzed by regression- correlation coefficient test and applying SPSS

software; and after investigating it revealed that there is a positive relationship between ethical

climate based on responsibility, and ethical climate based on moral and professional principles

and employees participation in knowledge management process, and conversely, there is a negative relationship between selfish ethical climate and employee participation in knowledge

management process.