Organizational Forgetting and Resistance to Change

Salavati, Adel; Baghabanian, Mostaffa; Zandi, Rezan

Organizational Forgetting and Resistance to Change

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Adel Salavati ¹

Mostaffa Baghabanian ²

Rezan Zandi ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Islamic Azad University - Sanadaj Branch- Department of Management

² Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University - Sanandaj Branch- Department of Economic

³ (M.A), Islamic azad University- Sanandaj Branch

Abstract

This study was conducted aimed to identify the relationship between organizational forgetting and resistance to change. This study statistical population consisted of the administration's cooperation. The statistical sample has been selected consisted of 200 employees of this department that sampling method stratified random proportional to population size.
Method of this research is descriptive study , in kinds of the correlation ,
with purpose from the applied research. Accordingly ,for measure the basic concepts of research ,Resistance to Change questionnaire of Wayne et al (2001) and Organizational Forgetting questionnaire with reliance on the "Holen and Philips" model (2004) were used. Reliability of questionnaires with Cranach' alpha ,respectively for the two variables ,
was calculated to be 0.84 and 0.83 ,and accepted. Test validity too ,with two methods of content validity and construct validity using ,results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and the KMO index was confirmed.
Final results of research ,showed significant relationship between organizational Forgetting and its dimensions (Intentional Forgetting, Accidentally Forgetting) with Resistance to Change is studied.

Keywords

organizational Forgetting

Resistance to Change

Change

Knowledge Management

Knowledge