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The purpose of this research was to study the relationship of social identity and organizational commitment with organizational communication. The population of study includes Isfahan and Yazd young and sport's staff. From among them 217 were selected via clustered random sampling to take part in the study. The questionnaires were distributed and 217 were returned. The results of stepwise regression analysis showed that there was a positive significant relationship between social identity and organizational communication. There was also a positive significant relationship between affective commitment and organizational communication. The results from structural equation modeling showed that total social identity had a direct effect on organizational commitment and organizational communication. Also social identity had a direct effect of 0.06 on organizational communication. The results showed that the model fitted the data.
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