Abstract:
Knowledge management is frequently identified as an important antecedent of innovation and has crucial
roles in form performances. The study targeted a population of 332 members of Awash bank bahirdar
district in bahirdar. Simple random sampling was employed to select a sample of 181 members of which
14 respondents were division managers and 167 were employees at Bahirdar district. The Cronbach’s
Alpha value for all questionnaire components were greater than 0.7 indicating that the research
instrument was accepted or reliable. As part of data analysis from descriptive analysis mean and
standard deviation were used to assess knowledge management practices and status of organizational
performances of sampled firm and from inferential statistics person correlation was applied to see
association between knowledge management practices and organizational performances, whereas,
multiple regression was employed to examine how much of the change in organizational performance is
due to the change in knowledge management practices. Descriptive results affirmed that knowledge
management practices and organizational performances of Awash bank was moderate which implied that
the firms should still expected to more enhance their knowledge management practices so as to boost
their organizational performance. Besides, multiple regression results showed that knowledge acquisition
with (Beta = 0.222), knowledge sharing with (Beta = 0.204), knowledge storage with (Beta = 0.156 and
knowledge applications (Beta = 0.354) significantly predicted organizational performances
(profitability).The R value (0.770) is an indication of high correlation between independent and
dependent variable, while, R
2
value (0.593) obtained in this study demonstrated that 59.3% of the
variation in organizational performance is due to change in the constructed knowledge management
dimension in this study .Owing this, the study concludes that knowledge acquisition, sharing, storage and
application significantly predicts organizational performances of Awash bank in Bahirdar district,
therefore, Awash bank should give due attention to these knowledge management practices.