Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor in Sport Management, Payame Noor University

2 M. A. in Sport Management, Allameh Tabatabaei University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational culture (humanist, success-oriented) on the freedom of expression of employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth with the role of mediator of spirituality. The research method was descriptive-survey and the statistical population of the research was all full- Young people were formed (N = 700). Using a sample size sheet of Karjes Morgan, 281 people were selected by random sampling as a sample. Data collection tools included three organizational culture questionnaires, Sepahand et al. (1396) The Gordon and Infant Freedom of Speech Inventory (1980) and Spirituality were from the Parsian and Doninteg Questionnaire (2009). The validity of the questionnaires There are 8 sports management professors and their reliability in a preliminary study on 30 members of the community and using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for questionnaires of organizational culture, freedom of speech and spirituality 0.81, 0.88 and 0.79. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze the data collected and the results showed that all three variables of research and their components in the Ministry of Sport and Youth were significantly higher in the situation than the average And the fitting of the final model of research is that there is a significant relationship between organizational culture and freedom of expression with respect to the mediating variable of meaning spirituality Is. Therefore, it can be concluded that spirituality can be considered as a factor in increasing the freedom of expression in the context of organizational culture; therefore, it is suggested that using mechanisms such as promotion of the culture of interpersonal trust, participation in the organization's future design, encouragement of morale Collective and in-service courses of spirituality increase spirituality in the organization.

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