The Impact of Knowledge Management in Developing Administrative Creativity through the Role of Mediator for Information Technology: An Exploratory Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Administrative Leaders and Teachers of the Oil Training Institute / Bas

Abstract

The subject of knowledge and its impact on managerial creativity is of particular importance to administrative researchers due to its great importance in today's business organizations that live in knowledge economies and an unstable competitive environment. This study is an attempt to test the effect of knowledge management as an independent variable in developing administrative creativity (the dependent variable), in addition to determining whether information technology has a mediating role in that relationship. A questionnaire was designed to collect the primary data, as (220) questionnaires were distributed, (212) questionnaires were retrieved, and (206) questionnaires were valid for statistical analysis. The research was based on the SPSS program.
The study reached several results, the most important of which are:
 There is a significant and statistically significant effect of knowledge management in developing administrative creativity.
 There is a significant statistically significant effect of information technology on achieving administrative creativity.
 Information technology partially mediates the relationship between knowledge management and administrative creativity.
Based on the results of the study, the researcher made a number of recommendations, the most important of which are:
 Working to support and disseminate knowledge at all levels of the Oil Training Institute / Basra.
 Attention to administrative creativity and its development and the need to pay attention to information technology because of its clear effects on the administrative creativity of organizations.
 Continuous updating of technology and taking advantage of the information revolution in the speed and accuracy of the required tasks.