Abstract—In order to achieve sustained competitive advantage through developing human capital, organizations, apart from human resource management practice, concentrate on developing transformational leaders and implementing knowledge management. The emergence and expansion of knowledge management and information management, on the one hand, is indebted to the study and research done in the field of work and business management and, on the other hand, it is the result of the trend of the organizations that are pioneer in the establishment of the mentioned systems and their attempt for the practical modification and adaptation of these systems under the conditions of internal environment of organization. Developing competencies of human resources is a primary activity to be focused by any organization that takes enormous efforts to overcome their competitors on product quality, customer service, and new product development. In this article, an attempt has been made to investigate and analuze the executive strategies of knowledge management and transformational leadership in organization as a strategy for the success of organization. The findings of this research indicates that, with regard to the varieties of environmental expectations and wills, knowingness management and its features along with applied knowledge management have strategic role in the success of organizations.
Index Terms—Knowledge management, transformational leadership, structure and culture, tactic, technical and instrumental
Mehrdad Goudarzvandchigini is with the Department of Management, Islamic Azad University Rasht Branch, Iran (e-mail: goodarzvand@iaurasht.ac.ir, tel : +989111387387, fax: +981318824456).
Cite: Mehrdad Goudarzv and Chigini, "Knowledge Management and Transformational Leadership in Organizational Success," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 377-379, 2011.