Investigating the relationship between organizational learning and organizational forgetting regarding to the effect of organizational citizenship behavior

Abstract

During the past decades, the companies have found out increasingly the value of knowledge management and organizational learning; and the researchers studied such processes in a wide range, despite this, there are some points in some discussions such as organizational forgetting which need to wide researches. So, this research besides examining the relationship between organizational learning and organizational forgetting aimed to investigate the effect of organizational citizenship behavior on the relationship between them. Statistical population of this research was the employees of Arya Sasol Polymer Company in Assaluyeh City in 2014-2015 in which available number of them was equal to 320 persons and considered sample of this study, 177 persons, were selected randomly by Morgan table. This research is applied and cross sectional one and has been conducted by using from questionnaire. To analyze the data resulted from this research chi- square statistical test for determining normality of data, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis test have been used. The findings resulted from the statistical method show that there is a significant relationship between organizational learning and targeted organizational forgetting as well as random organizational forgetting. Organizational citizenship behavior has a significant effect on relationship between organizational learning and targeted organizational forgetting as well as random organizational forgetting