Organizational Memory Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

The overall objective of the research is to analyze the impact of Organizational Memory (OM) on Organizational Performance (OP). The research community consists of all employees at the industrial companies in Sadat City. Due to time and cost constraints, the researcher relied on the sampling method to collect data for the study. The appropriate statistical methods were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses.The research has reached a number of results; the most important of which are: (1) the general average of the OM is fairly high. Management as a dimension of OM ranked first, followed by technological OM, while marketing OM ranked third, (2) the overall average of the OP is high. The administrative as one of the dimensions of OP ranked first. This is followed by a marketing OM, (3) there is a significant relationship between OM and OP at the industrial companies in Sadat City. The study referred to a number of recommendations; the most important of which are: (1) attention of officials at the industrial companies towards OM. This can be achieved through the formation of information bases that can be in their data bases and that there is an easy access to, (2) attention of officials towards maintaining OM. This can be done through knowledge management, since properly managing knowledge contributes to improved OP, and OM is the basis of organizational structure, (3) the need to direct the attention of officials towards the use of knowledge in improving OP through the OM of technological, administrative, and marketing, (4) The necessity of conducting many researches and studies on the economic, technical and administrative feasibility of OM systems and their application in addition to the need to conduct research and studies on the OM, in order to make comparisons between them so that the distinguished ones can be identified and set as role models applied to these companies, (5) the need to provide advanced technological infrastructure as one of the necessary requirements in the knowledge age, (6) the need to design effective systems of OM, and must identify and overcome the problems, and the transformation of the challenges facing the opportunities to be exploited in the future from the broad understanding of the advantages and the effective and vital role in these companies, (7) providing the requirements of the process of knowledge sharing, especially with regard to the process of training workers and teams, as this has positive effects on the efficiency of performance in these companies, (8) the need for different departments and decision makers to identify the obstacles to the application of the effective participation of knowledge and working to reduce them, achieve their objectives and strengthen their competitive position in these companies; (9) the need to activate the process of knowledge sharing among employees, (10) the need to understand the various interpretations based on knowledge, as this reflects the impact on the adoption of concepts and methods of sharing knowledge to achieve high performance levels.