Assessment of Organizational Memory Practices: The Case of Ethiopian Parliament
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2018-06-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Despite its strategic importance, organizational memory remains under developed in public
sector organizations. Research has shown that the private sector organizations have a better
grasp on knowledge management concepts and practices than the public sector organizations.
This study reported the findings of a quantitative investigation of organizational memory
practices within the office (secretariat) of the Ethiopian Parliament. Under a quantitative
research approach, a single case study design was used to encourage participants to share
their view about knowledge acquisition, retention, storage and sharing practices within their
organization. The study was based on a survey data from 156 respondents of multi-unit
organization that were mainly from the research and development, Human Resource,
procurement and finance, general service, legislative, public relations and IT departments.
The result suggested that HoPR do not have a systematic way of managing both individual
and organizational knowledge. Overall, this indicates that HoPR do not have a planned
organizational memory practices and the organizational memory management enablers such
as organizational infrastructure, organizational culture and organizational support are not in
such a way to foster organizational memory practices. This study is one of the first to
empirically test proposals with regard to the concept of organizational memory.
Key words: Memory, Knowledge, Organizational Memory, OM, Knowledge
Management, KM, Ethiopian Parliament
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Memory Knowledge Organizational Memory OM, Knowledge ManagementKM, Ethiopian Parliament