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The purpose of this research was to analyzed the relationship between work ethic with job satisfaction and organizational commitment of events volunteers in sport. The method that applied in this research was descriptive-correlation. The research statistic population consists of all volunteers participating in twelfth sport-cultural Olympiad of male and female students of universities all around the country. In fact, 133 persons were evaluated as the sample of the research. For collecting data, it was used from two questionnaires work ethic of Petty (1990), satisfaction of volunteer experiences of Mallaei et al (2009) and organizational commitment of Allen and Mayer (1991). To determine the causal relationship between variables collected data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between work ethic and Satisfaction, work ethic and organizational commitment, Satisfaction and organizational commitment Volunteers. Also there is an indirect, positive and significant relationship the mediating role of satisfaction between work ethic and organizational commitment. It is recommended to athletic directors to increase satisfaction in sport volunteers by providing ethic codes and developing work ethic principles and through continue to develop their partnership.

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