Organizational forgetting; a managerial challenge in the new workmanship Era

To improve organizations competitive positions, managers need to utilize knowledge management in order to maintain existing knowledge, and acquire new knowledge. Efforts made in organizations in terms of knowledge management may be divided into two main parts. First, the organizational capability in learning new knowledge known as Organizational Learning. Second, is the need for putting away existing knowledge known as Organization Forgetting in order to acquire fresh knowledge? This paper aimed to identify Organization Forgetting. In this paper, after a wide literature review, three dimensions of Organizational Forgetting (the type, the outcome, and the method) have been identified. In order to measure these dimensions, a questionnaire containing 25 questions was designed. Simple random sampling was used for data gathering. Using Structural Equation Modeling, the three dimensions of Organizational Forgetting were measured. Pearson correlation coefficient was applied to test three hypotheses. Our findings showed that there are significant relationships between the type, the outcome and the method of Organizational Forgetting.