habibollah salarzehi - associate professor of management university of sistan and baluchestan zahedan iran
jaleh farzaneh hassanzadeh - phd student university of sistan and baluchestan zahedan iran
habib ebrahimpour - faculty of education and psychology university of mohaghegh ardabili ardabil iran

An increasing number of organizations are turning to knowledge based organizations. Thus, theses firms pay attention to innovation and creativity more and more. Therefore, this study focused on the mediating role of organizational forgetting in the LMX- creative work involvement relationship. Data (N= 418) collected in knowledge based organizations in north of Iran and confirmed our assumptions on the mediating role of organizational forgetting. The indirect relationship between LMX and creative work involvement through organizational forgetting was stronger than direct effect. Our findings, point to the importance of considering the leader-member relationship and organizational forgetting issues for increasing employees’ creative work involvement.

leader-member exchange LMX,creative work involvement,organizational forgetting interntiona organizational forgetting