Mehrdad Moharramzadeh; Mohammad Zare Abandansari; Tayyebeh Yanpi; Hamed Hamed Kheirollahi
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Objective: Reducing financial violations in Iranian Premier League football clubs is of significant importance. Financial misconduct damages club brands, reduces private sector investment, and leads to fan dissatisfaction and human resource challenges. This study aims to identify strategies to enhance ...
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Objective: Reducing financial violations in Iranian Premier League football clubs is of significant importance. Financial misconduct damages club brands, reduces private sector investment, and leads to fan dissatisfaction and human resource challenges. This study aims to identify strategies to enhance transparency and reduce financial violations among managers in the Persian Gulf Pro League.Methodology: This applied research adopts a qualitative approach using descriptive phenomenology. Participants included experts in the field. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions and analyzed using MAXQDA 2020. Validation was ensured through credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability criteria.Results: Analysis identified 89 sub-themes grouped into six main themes: smart reporting, legal oversight by the federation, fan and media engagement, technological advancements in financial management, restructuring club management, and corruption prevention in contracts.Conclusion: Reducing financial violations in Iranian football clubs requires structural, managerial, and legal reforms. Key measures include enhancing financial transparency and independent auditing, improving managerial structures and financial governance, enforcing strict resource allocation laws, engaging international regulatory bodies, and strengthening financial misconduct reporting mechanisms.
Hosein Taheri; mohammad zare abandansari; Hamed Kheirollahi Meidani
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Objective: The present study aimed to qualitatively analyze effective human resource management strategies in support of the career prospects of professional athletes in Iran.
Methodology: This research was applied in nature and conducted using a qualitative approach with a descriptive phenomenological ...
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Objective: The present study aimed to qualitatively analyze effective human resource management strategies in support of the career prospects of professional athletes in Iran.
Methodology: This research was applied in nature and conducted using a qualitative approach with a descriptive phenomenological design. The study participants included experts relevant to the subject. The sampling method was purposive. Data collection was carried out through 19 semi-structured interviews, and the data analysis was performed using MAXQDA software version 2020. To assess the validity, the criteria of transferability, dependability, and confirmability were utilized. Additionally, for reliability assessment, the inter-coder agreement method was applied, and the feedback from sports management experts was incorporated to enhance the accuracy and credibility of the analysis.
Results: According to the findings, 121 sub-themes were identified in the form of 8 main themes, training and development of non-sports skills, development of career opportunities, career path planning, financial support and economic security of athletes, psychological support, injury management and sports rehabilitation, continuous monitoring and evaluation of performance, and social and cultural support.
Conclusion: Designing a sustainable career path for professional athletes requires a multidimensional approach that encompasses all their professional, economic, psychological, social, and cultural aspects. Creating comprehensive models that benefit from specialized training, psychological and financial support, and the use of modern technologies helps improve the quality of life of athletes.
mohammad zare abandansari
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Objective: Different sports federations can try to grow and develop their organization's human resources by using favorable relations with sports federations of other countries. Therefore, the design of the model was the influencing factors on the development of communication between the sports federations ...
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Objective: Different sports federations can try to grow and develop their organization's human resources by using favorable relations with sports federations of other countries. Therefore, the design of the model was the influencing factors on the development of communication between the sports federations of Iran and the countries of the Persian Gulf.
Methodology: The present research work was conducted in a mixed qualitative and quantitative method. The phenomenological approach was used in the qualitative part, and in the quantitative part, the descriptive survey approach was used. The participating community of the qualitative part includes experts related to the subject of the study, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 of them. The data collection tool in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire taken from the qualitative part, the content validity of which was confirmed by Several experts, and due to the limitedness of the statistical society, according to the Morgan table, it was completed by 384 people related to the subject. The reliability of the instrument was also estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Finally, confirmatory factor analysis (structural equation model) was used in order to present the influencing factors on the development of communication between sports federations of Iran and Persian Gulf countries.
Results: According to the information obtained from the research work, 71 primary topics were identified in the form of 11 main topics: media content, behavioral norms, infrastructure development, management strategy, political dimensions, security dimensions, sports interactions, international solidarity, sports communication, national prestige, and educational experiences. Also based on the results of the factor loadings, it can be said that the dimensions of security (0.952) have the most influence and national prestige (0.394) have the least influence on the development of communication between sports federations of Iran and Persian Gulf countries.
Conclusion: It is suggested to the senior managers of sports federations in Iran to use the concepts identified in this research work to improve sports relations with other countries.
