Title: Considering the effect of critical success factors of knowledge management on safety management and determining the principle components of both attitudes in Isfahan car industry

Authors: Negin Berjis; Hadi Shirouyehzad; Mohammad Mehdi Tavakoli

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: Nowadays, knowledge is one of the most valuable resources of the strategic organisational outlook which has a direct influence on organisational performance. Augmentation of knowledge leads to enhance the performance and decrease the risks and after that, the degree of safety could be increased. To this end, in this research the impact of critical success factors (CSF) of knowledge management (KM) on safety management (SM) is considered through using inferential statistics and multivariable analysis. For this reason, Isfahan car industry has been selected as the case of research and questionnaire has been used to assess these factors. Then the relationship between CSFs of KM and SM has been studied and given that CSFs of KM and SM indicators have different priorities, Friedman test was conducted to evaluate the priorities. Postulating CSFs of KM and SM analysis have been done by using PCA approach and critical success factors with the maximum of variance have been determined. In order to perform the statistical analysis SAS 9.2 software was used.

Keywords: knowledge management; safety management; critical success factors; CSFs; principal component analysis; PCA; Iran; automobile industry; automotive management; vehicle safety.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPMB.2015.072329

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, 2015 Vol.5 No.4, pp.515 - 532

Received: 07 Oct 2014
Accepted: 29 Nov 2014
Published online: 09 Oct 2015 *

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