Relationship of Organizational Intelligence with Innovation in Volleyball Federation Considering Organizational Culture as Intermediary Variable

The purpose of this study is modeling the relationship between organizational intelligence and innovation in volleyball federation considering organizational culture as an intermediary variable. This research is applied, and The methods used is descriptive and Correlation analysis. The statistical population of the study consisted of all full-time employees and managers of valiball federation, in Iran. The number of them included 92 people. However, only 72 completed questionnaires. The instruments for collecting questionnaires in this research were Karl Albarecht's Organizational Intelligence Questionnaire, Hofstede's Organizational Culture Questionnaire (MHM), and a researcher-made Innovation Questionnaire, and a combination of Jimens-Jimens and others (2008), Pennyards (2006), Pegrague and Sohell (2006). Validity and reliability of these questionnaires were investigated using common methods. In order to test the hypotheses, structural equation method (Smart PLS software) was used. The results of this study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational intelligence and innovation in the volleyball federation. Also, the relationship between organizational intelligence and organizational culture as well as the relationship between organizational culture and innovation is positive and significant.