* Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: momeni_128@yahoo.com (K. Momeni) © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. doi: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.09.026 Management Science Letters 2 (2012) 2857–2862 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Management Science Letters homepage: www.GrowingScience.com/msl A social work study on investigating organizational relationship: A case study of sport organization Khodayar Momeni a* , Allahyar Arabmomeni b , Mohammad Reza Iravani c and Gholamreza Tajbakhsh d a Islamic Azad University of Kerman, Science and Research, Kerman Branch, Iran b Department of Human Science of Islamic Azad University Khomeinishahr Branch, Isfahan, Iran c Department of Social Work, Islamic Azad University of Khomeinishahr, Khomeinishahr Branch, Daneshjou Blvd, Iran d Assistant Professor of Sociology Grand Ayatollah Boroujerd, Iran A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received July 16, 2012 Received in Revised form August, 27, 2012 Accepted 20 September 2012 Available online September 28 2012 Organizational relationship plays an important role in developing more cooperation among members of employees. Today, there is no doubt that people are mostly considered as the primary source of creating value added activities. Therefore, it is important to learn more about organizational relationship in different organizations and detect possible barriers on developing such relationships. In this paper, we present an empirical study to detect the status of organizational relationship in Sport organization of province of Esfahan, Iran. The proposed study designs a questionnaire consists of five parts including informative, freedom, one-side relationship, formality and openness. All questions were designed in Likert scale from one to five and Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.94. The results of the study shows organizational relationship is in good position in average and all different cities of Iran. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Sport Organizational relationships Cooperation 1. Introduction Organizational relationship plays an important role in developing more cooperation among members of employees. Organizational relationships such as formal or informal could help increase communications and help organizations build better working environment. There are also different hierarchal relationships among relationships such as horizontal or vertical. Jaspers and van den Ende (2006) argued that the organizational form of a buying firm's vertical relationship with a supplier could be described as a configuration of four distinct. Ni (2006) investigated the relationships as organizational resources by investigating public relationships effect through its connection with organizational strategies.