Effect of organizational culture on social responsibility and organizational commitment in staff of sport and youth departments: the mediator role of professional ethics

The purpose of present study was to investigate the mediator role of professional ethics in organizational culture effects on staff social responsibility and organizational commitment. Subjects were all staff of sport and youth departments of Esfahan province. The number of statistical sample was determined by Krejcie and Morgan table to be 201. Sampling was done by classified random method according to geographical distribution of service location. For data collection about organizational culture variable, Denison questionnaire (2000), about social responsibility variable, Heidarzadeh and Rahpeima questionnaire (2013), about organizational commitment variable, Allen and Meyer questionnaire (1990), and about professional ethics variable, Kadvezier questionnaire (2004) were used. Their face and content validity was confirmed based on professors’ comments and their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha. For data analysis, structural equation modeling by Lisrel software was used. Results showed that organizational culture has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment, by coefficient of 0.36, indirectly according to professional ethics mediator variable and on social responsibility by coefficient of 0.37. Thus, the mediator role of professional ethics variable and research conceptual model was confirmed.