The aim of current study’s aim is to investigate the relationship between social capital & the knowledge management in the Iranian National Company of Oil Refining and Distribution. Therefore, after a thorough literature review, the researcher has chosen the Filius knowledge management model, with the four dimensions of knowledge acquisition, knowledge documentation, knowledge transfer, knowledge creation and knowledge application and a model for social capital with five dimension that Mr.molaii used for her research
The standard scale for the KM is consisted of 33 statements and the social capital is consisted of 31 statements.
The statistical sample of this study was the manager and employees of Iranian National Company of Oil Refining and Distribution, therefore based on a random sampling method, we have survey 60 respondents, among these respondents, 11 belonged to the general engineering unit and 8 belonged to refinement engineering unit, 8 belonged to technical inspection, 13 belonged to financial unit,15 belonged to supplies and store units and 5 belonged to clerical unit.
Based on the proposed research model, we have examined the research hypothesis, which consisted of one main hypothesis and five sub hypothesis. At last, the research hypotheses were tested by Spearman Correlation Factor and four hypotheses were accepted and one of them weren’t accepted and their significance factor was confirmed.
Afterward, by the multi factor data analyze, it was noticed that the independent variables of research has multi dimension correlation with km as a dependent variable.
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