Determining the Causal Relationship between Culture and Organizational Silence: Mediating Role of Organizational Identity in Head Office of Sport and Youth, Alborz province

The purpose of this research is to determine the causal relationship between culture and organizational silence with the mediating role of organizational identity in the staff of Alborz Province Youth and Sports Organization. Therefore, the methodology of this work is practical in purpose and correlative in data gathering which is specifically based on structural equation modeling using Smart PLS3 software. The statistical community included all the staff of Head Office of Sport and Youth, Alborz province which was the sample equal to the population of 160 persons. The utilized tools of this research were the organizational silence questionnaires of Vakola and Bouradas (2005), Denison’s organizational culture (2000), and Chenni’s organizational identity (1983); the content and validity of which was accredited by 10 professors of sports management in the field of organizational behavior. To approve the structure validity, the two methods of convergent and divergent validities were employed which particularly included the Average Variance Extracted and Heterotrait- Monotrait Ratio; the validity of the questionnaires was evaluated with a suitable composite reliability method. The findings of this research proves that there is a significant and intense reverse negative relationship between culture and organizational silence; Furthermore, the mediating role of organizational identity was found significant according to which some practical suggestions are noted separately in each section for the intended managers in order to reduce the silence and increase the organizational identity of the staff in a tangible way.