A Project Management Improvement Program: Enhancing Production With Implementing the Knowledge Management Principles

The production sector has been radically affected by developments in the knowledge of the project management. Therefore, it is important to improve the services production processes in any project. This research aimed to enhance production of cement manufacture by implementing knowledge management principles along with a project management improvement program as mediator. The study was carried out at different cement manufactures in Kurdistan region of Iraq. To enable the study to measure production improvement at cement businesses, the researchers used four knowledge management aspects, first is technology infrastructure, second is human resource, third is knowledge sharing, and fourth is organizational culture along with project management improvement program as a mediator. The researchers employed quantitative research method via using a survey to measure the current study. The questionnaire was distributed randomly among 150 administrative employees of different cement manufacture in Kurdistan region. However, the researchers were able to gather 139 completed questionnaires. The study applied hierarchal multiple regression analysis and Sobel test to measure developed research hypotheses. The findings revealed that all knowledge management principles (technology infrastructure, human resource, knowledge sharing, and organizational culture) had direct positive and significant relationship with enhanced production at cement manufactures at Kurdistan region of Iraq. Moreover, the findings showed that all knowledge management principles with mediator factor (project management improvement program) had indirect positive and significant relationship with enhanced production at cement manufactures at Kurdistan region of Iraq.