The mediating role of organizational purposeful forgetting in the influence of genuine leadership on organizational learning in Staff of Ministry of Petroleum

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of genuine leadership on organizational learning with regard to mediating variable of purposeful organizational forgetting. The methodology of study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlative in terms of implementation. The statistical population of the study consisted of 840 employees of headquarter of the Ministry of Petroleum. Among them 260 persons were selected by random sampling using Krejcie and Morgan table. Three standard questionnaires of genuine leadership of North Rhine (2010), Dihalenchr('39')s Organizational Purposeful Forgetting (2004), and Niffechr('39')s Organizational Learning (2001) were used for data collection. The reliability of the questionnaires using Cronbachchr('39')s alpha coefficients were 0.86, 0.88 and 0.89, respectively. The data collected were analyzed by structural equation warpPLS software. The results of path analysis showed that genuine leadership has positive and meaningful effect on organizational learning and the mediating role of purposeful organizational forgetting between authentic leadership and organizational learning is confirmed.