In broad-brush terms, it includes the individual's understanding and accommodation of their employer's individual corporate culture, habits, management, communications and decision-making style, the contacts and relationships between employees or teams of employees, the detail of job-related events and the knowledge of tried and tested usage as it applies to the organization's own market circumstances and special environment (so-called episodic memory). The qualitative application of organisational memory is closely allied to memory, which is most commonly described as knowledge retention or the difference between having acquired knowledge and having to re-acquire it. It is what is not forgotten; the reconstruction of experienced events.
It includes an individual's comprehension and accommodation of their employer's unique corporate culture, customs, management style, communication methods, and decision-making approaches, as well as the connections between employees or teams, job-related incidents, and the understanding of tried-and-tested practices tailored to the organization's specific market conditions and environment (also known as episodic memory). The qualitative application of organizational memory is closely related to memory, which is most commonly described as knowledge retention or the distinction between acquiring knowledge and having to re-acquire it. It refers to what remains remembered; the reconstruction of past events.