Designing a Toxic Organizational Atmosphere Reduction Model with an Integrated Approach to Interpretive Structural Modeling and Structural Equation Modeling (Case Study: Yazd Municipality)

organizational environment and atmosphere is one of the most important issues for any organization, and that attention, and importance to it can bring many benefits to any organization. The purpose of this study was first to identify and then design a communication model between the factors affecting the reduction of the toxic organizational climate in Yazd Municipality. The statistical population of the study consists of managers and employees of Yazd Municipality. Data collection tools in this study; In order to complete the pairwise comparison questionnaire between the identified factors and present the conceptual model of the research using an interpretive structural modeling approach, 9 managers of Yazd Municipality were selected as a sample using the snowball sampling method. . Then, in order to fit the obtained model, the structural equation modeling approach and Smart PLS3 software were used. The research results indicate that the 7 main dimensions of the research are located in 5 general levels. Also, according to the research findings, the factors of organizational culture and leadership as one of the main dimensions in the initial level of the communication model have a toxic organizational climate reduction. From the results of the present study, city managers can use it as a beacon to achieve the path of reducing the toxic atmosphere in their organization.