The Mediating Role of Social Loafing and Job Insecurity in the Impact of Organizational Forgetting on Employee Performance in the Governmental Organizations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of social loafing and job insecurity in the impact of organizational forgetting on employees’ organizational performance in governmental organizations. In this regard, the Karadel and Saigin (2013) questionnaire is used for measuring organizational forgetting, the Oyang et al (2015) questionnaire was used for measuring job insecurity, the Karadel and Saigin (2013) questionnaire was used for measuring employees' social loafing, and the standard questionnaire of Hersey and Goldsmith (2003) was used to measure employees' organizational performance variable. The sample consisted of 375 members among the statistical population of all managers and employees of governmental organizations of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province and the descriptive correlational method was used for conducting the study. The Structural Equation Analysis and Partial Least Squares (PLS) method was used by Smart-PLS software to answer the questions and investigate the research hypotheses. According to the results, organizational forgetting has a significant and negative effect on job insecurity and social loafing. Also, according to the findings of the present study, job insecurity has a positive and significant effect on social loafing. The research results on the effect of social loafing on employees’ organizational performance and the effect of organizational forgetting on employees’ organizational performance were confirmed with regard to mediating role of social loafing, while the effect of job insecurity on employees’ organizational performance and the effect of organizational forgetting on organizational performance regarding the mediation job insecurity was not confirmed.