The Relationship between Organizational Learning and Organizational Commitment in Sport Organizations

The Purpose of this paper is investigating the relationship between organizational learning and organizational commitment in sports organizations in Kurdistan Province. This study is a descriptive correlation survey. Statistical population involving in the present study were all the staff members of the Kurdistan sports organizations. Using the simple random sampling method and Kerjesy and Morgan table, 105 participants were selected as the sample of this study. Organizational learning and organizational commitment questionnaires were used to collect the related and necessary data. The Reliability coefficients of these questionnaires were 0.83 and 0.85 respectively. To do data analysis several tests including Pearson Correlated Coefficient and multiple regressions analysis were used. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational learning and organizational commitment of the sports organizations staff members in Kurdistan province(r = 0.33). The results of the multiple regressions analysis also indicated that among the different aspects of organizational learning, the knowledge sharing aspect has the most correlation with continuous organizational commitment of the staff members. Thus, organizational learning has an impact on organizational commitment in sports organizations.