Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Ph. D Student in Sport Management, University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran
2 faculty members
Abstract
The present study was aimed to check the communication model of identity and organizational silencewith staff self-concept in the offices of Youth and Sports, in the northwest of Iran. It is descriptive and correlational. The sample of study consisted of all agency employees of the Youth and Sports office in the northwest of Iran,i.e the provices of West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan and Kurdistan,in1395. The sample size determind via Cochrane formula was169.The data were collected through library studies,as well as the standard questionnaires of-organizational identity of Cheney (1983),organizational silence of Wakvallae and borradoues (2005) and self- concept of Raj Kumar Sarasota(1981).The researchers employed SPSS software, and AMOSE to give inferencial and descriptive statistics.The results indicated that organizational identity,the silence of the organization and self-concept in the offices of Youth and Sports in northwest of the country are significantly in a good condition. The result also showed that organizational identity had a positive effect on the self-concept and silence of organizational departments of Youth and Sports offices in the northwest of Iran.Therefore self- concept positively influenced the organizational silence in Youth and Sports offices in the northwest of Iran. In sum, the results showed that organizational identity and trying to boost and developed it is of very paramount importance to managers.
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