Anticipation of Organizational Agility in the Ministry of Youth and Sports According to Organizational Forgetting and Its Factors

This study aimed to anticipation of organizational agility in the Ministry of Youth and Sports according to organizational forgetting and its factors. Method was descriptive and type of correlation. Population was all employees of the Ministry of Sport and Youth (n=180), respectively. The questionnaire targeted organizational forgetting Jalali and colleagues (2010) and organizational agility Spitzer (2007) was used. For validity using 10 sports management experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha, respectively, .85 and .93 percent were reported. Descriptive and inferential statistics (K-S, Pearson and regression) were used. Results showed significant correlation between organizational forgetting and organizational agility. Among organizational forgetting factors, Intentional organizational forgetting has most correlation with organizational agility. Regression analysis showed that organizational forgetting and its factors (Intentional organizational forgetting, knowledge management potential, organizational lerning) anticipated 45 percent of organizational agility. Also, among organizational forgetting factors, unlearning was most important anticipate of organizational forgetting.