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The teaching hospitals which are interested in change and improvement to reach their goals require up to date and productive knowledge. In order to manage the hospital well and to keep the competitive advantage over their rivals and to gain access to the highest technologies, they have been using knowledge management and productivity methods and techniques in their organizations.
The current study is descriptive in nature and has been conducted in a cross-sectional fashion. The objective of this study is to be applied in reality. In order to analyze the data, the Spearman’s correlation test was used. It was found that the mean utilization of policies and approaches, management systems, promotion and encouragement systems and the system for the training of the knowledge management in the chosen hospitals are less than the mean score. The mean productivity was found to less than average in the studied hospitals. There were no meaningful statistical difference in the policies and approaches, management and promotion systems and knowledge acquisition and productivity. However, there was a meaningful difference between the Training knowledge management system and productivity in the studied hospitals (p= 0.007).
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To Cite this Article: Nasiripour, A. A., Tabibi, S. J., & Badi, H. F. (2012). The Relationship between Knowledge Management and Productivity in Teaching Hospitals of Hamedan, Iran. International Journal of Acdemic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 1(1), 367–374.
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