지식경영자산이 조직유효성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

A study of the Knowledge Management Assets on the Organizational Effectiveness of Marine Shipbuilding Industry

Although marine shipbuilding industry of Korea has solidified its place as the world’s No. 1 since entering 2000s, it is closely followed by China in terms of price competitiveness and is behind Japan in technical skills. Also merchant ship market has entered a period of recession due to decreased global cargo volume. In order for Korean marine shipbuilding industry to maintain its competitive edge equipped with competitiveness in this changing market environment, it is a time for vitalizing knowledge management. Hereby this research intends to provide working-level implications by analysing actual proof of what influences knowledge management assets have on organizational effectiveness for marine shipbuilding businesses. This research, with the purpose of obtaining this research objective, collected data from 499 employees in marine shipbuilding businesses. For statistics processing of collected data, SPSS15.0 and AMOS 7.0 were used. he research objective was achieved by verifying hypotheses through reliability analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis and structural equation model analysis. The results analysed from actual proof of this research are as follows. First, the result of research in structural assets indicates that information technology support turns out to have a positive (+) influence on both variables, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization. Second,, the research of knowledge management activities indicates that knowledge sharing has a very strong positive (+) influence on knowledge utilization. Third, the result of research between knowledge utilization and organizational effectiveness indicates that knowledge utilization has a positive (+) influence on both job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Accordingly, it may seem that in promoting knowledge management there needs to focus on knowledge sharing and utilization.