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Objective: This qualitative study aimed to identify the general requirements and main criteria for admission to formal sports coaching education programs.
Methodology: The study utilized an exploratory qualitative design, with semi-structured interviews as the primary data collection method. Qualitative ...
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Objective: This qualitative study aimed to identify the general requirements and main criteria for admission to formal sports coaching education programs.
Methodology: The study utilized an exploratory qualitative design, with semi-structured interviews as the primary data collection method. Qualitative thematic analysis was employed as an analytical strategy to identify, analyze, and report patterns or themes that emerged from the data. Eighteen experienced experts involved in coach education were selected through a purposeful sampling procedure and participated in the research work.
Results: The study identified three high-level themes that represent the general requirements and criteria for admission to the formal sports coaching education programs "prerequisites," "human skills," and "ethical orientation." The prerequisites included having a background related to the sport, interest, and age. Effective communication with people, paying attention to the socio-cultural characteristics of athletes, and mutual and appropriate understanding of athletes were identified as the human skills required. The sub-themes of ethics included compliance with ethical issues, the role of being a model, not having an unethical history, helping athletes to develop ethics, being committed and trustworthy, and having a coaching philosophy.
Conclusion: The study's findings suggest that by considering the proposed criteria, the initial selection of candidates interested in entering formal sports coaching education programs can be modified, resulting in the training of higher-quality coaches with a greater capacity to improve athlete performance.
Mehrdad Dehghan; Najaf Aghaei; Alireza Elahi
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Objective: In the current era of the sports industry, organizational performance is critical for success in a competitive environment. In the current dynamic situation, it is appropriate for organizations to focus their management expertise on finding effective ways to create a sustainable competitive ...
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Objective: In the current era of the sports industry, organizational performance is critical for success in a competitive environment. In the current dynamic situation, it is appropriate for organizations to focus their management expertise on finding effective ways to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Therefore, the Iranian National Olympic Committee is facing various management challenges in order to achieve optimal performance. The purpose of this research work is to determine the impact of managers' strategic intelligence on the organizational performance of the Iranian National Olympic Committee with a mediating role of sustainable competitive advantage.Methodology: The current research work is applied research in terms of purpose, descriptive-correlation in terms of nature and content, and field data collection in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the research work was made up of managers, experts, and members of the general assembly of the National Olympic Committee of Iran. Also the sample size was determined in full. Therefore, 90 questionnaires were completed and analyzed. In order to collect information, three questionnaires of Maccoby's strategic intelligence (2004) and Kaplan and Norton's (2001) organizational performance were used, along with the sustainable competitive advantage questionnaire in Yu et al.'s (2017) research work. The content and form validity of the questionnaires were confirmed by asking the opinions of 7 sports management professors, and its reliability was also confirmed using the Cronbach's alpha test. In order to examine and analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used with the structural equation modeling approach; the data was analyzed using the partial least squares method.Results: The research results showed the direct and positive impact of strategic intelligence on organizational performance and sustainable competitive advantage, as well as the direct and positive impact of sustainable competitive advantage on organizational performance. In addition, the mediating role of sustainable competitive advantage in the influence of managers' strategic intelligence on organizational performance was confirmed.Conclusion: Therefore, the managers and decision-makers of the Iranian National Olympic Committee can use the capacity of strategic intelligence and its dimensions at the group level to provide the basis for maintaining competitive advantage in order to increase organizational performance.
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Summary
The development and management of coach careers play an important role in the performance of athletes, and the development and success of the sports organizations. The purpose of this work was to provide a model to manage the career path of the Iranian sports coaches. Based on the proposed model, ...
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Summary
The development and management of coach careers play an important role in the performance of athletes, and the development and success of the sports organizations. The purpose of this work was to provide a model to manage the career path of the Iranian sports coaches. Based on the proposed model, it can be stated that the role of the managers and sports organizations in the stability of the career path system of sports coaches is a must.
Introduction
Currently, coaching is at its most dynamic in history. The career development of coaches and the management of their career path can play an important role in the performance of athletes, and the development and success of the sports organizations. Despite being new, studies have been conducted, and models for frameworks in various fields have been proposed. However, these models do not comprehensively study the career management of sports coaches, and each one of them covers only one of these areas. Therefore, the present work was designed as a model to manage the career path of the sports coaches.
Methodology and Approach
This research work is of qualitative type, which uses the method of data theory (grounded theory) and the approach of Glaser (1992). Sampling was done by the snowball method. The data collection sources included the scientific resources and in-depth interviews (with 20 researchers, resource management specialists, humanities, sports coaches and managers, and elite athletes). The validity was checked and confirmed by the interviewees, and then by the expert professors. 85% of the results obtained were obtained by calculating the reliability of the process retest. Data analysis was performed in the three stages of open, axial, and selective coding.
Results and Conclusion
In order to promote and advance the goals of sports organizations, the role of managers and the organization in the stability and stability of the career path system of sports coaches is essential, and can be used to develop and enhance the sports coaches and the managers' capabilities in increasing the organizational productivity. Therefore, the model was designed in order to develop the capabilities of coaches and their careers and related developments. The results of open and selective codes identified 119 concepts and 28 main categories. At the level of selective coding, four main categories were explained: strategic, managerial, knowledge, operational; and at each level, the task divisions were explained.
