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.
In a general sense, it involves an individual's understanding and adaptation to their employer's distinct corporate culture, habits, management style, communication methods, and decision-making approaches, as well as the relationships between employees or teams, job-related incidents, and the knowledge of established practices suited to the organization's unique circumstances (also referred to as episodic memory). The qualitative application of organizational memory is closely tied to memory, which is typically characterized as knowledge retention or the difference between acquiring knowledge and having to re-acquire it. It involves recalling what has been retained; the reconstruction of past events.