Investigation the Effect of Intentional and Accidental Organizational Forgetting on Organizational Learning process (Case study: Central Office of Jahad Daneshgahi)

Organizational forgetting is new concept that recently entered to organization and management literature and researchers attend to it. Current research investigates the effect of organizational forgetting (intentional and accidental) on organizational learning process. Research design is descriptive, survey and in terms of goal is applicable. Data was gathered by means of researcher made questionnaire of organizational learning and forgetting. Research census is all managers and experts of Jahad Daneshgahi central office in Tehran city. According to Cochran formula size of sample is 127, which randomly selected from census. The results show that Planned organizational forgetting is a significant positive effect on organizational learning process while non-targeted organizational forgetting no significant effect on the process of organizational learning; Then, the effectiveness of organizational forgetting (intentional and accidenta) were measured on different factors. For example, it was found that organizational forgetting is a positive and significant effect on the dissemination of knowledge, knowledge performance, and result review. The results showed that accidental organizational forgetting had no significant effect on these factors.