Farzaneh Mazloomi Soveini; Javad Shahlaee Bagheri; Gholamreza Shabanibahar; Farzad Ghafouri
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Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the benefits of institutionalizing strategic thinking in sport federations.
Methodology: This research work was a qualitative exploratory study that was conducted through a thematic analysis. The statistical population included experts of sports management ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the benefits of institutionalizing strategic thinking in sport federations.
Methodology: This research work was a qualitative exploratory study that was conducted through a thematic analysis. The statistical population included experts of sports management with the experience of familiarity with the principles of futurology, and according to the research nature, 16 experts were interviewed through snowball sampling until reaching theoretical saturation. The tool used in the research work was a semi-structured interview. The intra-subject agreement method was used to ensure the reliability of the interviews, and the validity was confirmed by consulting sport management experts and reviewing based on their opinions.
Results: The thematic analysis by Braun and Clarke’s (2006) method led to the extraction of 168 codes, 12 sub-themes, and 4 main themes. The findings demonstrated that "Sports Development", "Economic Development", "Organizational Excellence" and "Coping with Crisis" were different benefits of institutionalization of strategic thinking in sports federations.
Conclusion: Considering the special benefits that the institutionalization of strategic thinking brings for sports federations, the focus of sports management trustees on the development and strengthening of strategic thinking in sport federations, and sports managers can be the source of significant changes in the field of sports.
rahman javnmardi; farzad ghafouri; habib honari; Javad Shahlaee
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Objectives: The purpose of this work was to identify the effective factors in transition of football players from the amateur to the professional level in Iran.
Methodology: The research method was qualitative and based on the foundation data theory. Data analysis was done according to Glazer (1992). ...
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Objectives: The purpose of this work was to identify the effective factors in transition of football players from the amateur to the professional level in Iran.
Methodology: The research method was qualitative and based on the foundation data theory. Data analysis was done according to Glazer (1992). The population consisted of football experts (professional coaches, managers of the football federation of Iran, organizations of sports and youth, professional clubs and sport and physical education academies). The participants were interviewed, and the interviews stopped when we reached repetitive answers. In order to collect information in the first stage, the literature was reviewed. Then semi-structured interviews were done, which was carried out online because of pandemic. Validity, reliability, acceptability, transferability, and approvability were measured.
Results: The data analysis identified 245 primary codes. Then 120 primary independent code were created, and 20 sub-categories and 4 main categories (technical, academic and talent identification, and organizational and human resource factors) were identified as the factors affecting factors on transferring football players from the amateur to the professional level in Iran.
Conclusion: According to the findings, we recognized management factors including the development of technical and sports factors, supervision of football academies and schools, and the issue of talent acquisition, the review of relevant sports organizations and finally the empowerment of human resources in the field of football and also key tools to face with challenges of transition process. This, is turn, can facilitate transferring the young amateur players to the professional levels.
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Objective: The aim of this work was to construct and validate the instrument of competency of sport organization managers.
Methodology: The present work was a functional survey, and was done as a field study. The statistic population was the sport management experts including the sport manager experts, ...
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Objective: The aim of this work was to construct and validate the instrument of competency of sport organization managers.
Methodology: The present work was a functional survey, and was done as a field study. The statistic population was the sport management experts including the sport manager experts, sociology experts, and sport organization managers. The whole statistic society was not available, so a number of 384 questionnaires were distributed via the convenience sampling method, and 342 questionnaires were used for analysis. The instrument was a Bejani (2018) dissertation questionnaire with 7 components and 24 items, and its content and face reliability were confirmed by a group of sport management experts. The structural equational factor analysis was used for validation of the instrument.
Results: The constructed reliability of the questionnaire was approved by the structural equation. The path coefficients of sport organizations managers’ competency with the components of technical ability, scientific ability, personal ability, perceptional-emotional ability, relation management, globalization ability, and competitive ability were 0.84, 0.81, 0.85, 0.83, 0.89, 0.82, and 0.81, respectively. The statistical amount (t) for all of the seven components was ±2.56. Accordingly, all the components had a high foreseeing power on the sport organizations. Due to the good amount of GOF (0.68) considering the whole goodness of the model, the measuring quality of the model was desirable.
Conclusion: It would be useful to use the competency instrument as an instrument within different levels in sport organization such as employment, education, and evaluation of managers. It is noticeable that the model of manger competencies is not a constant issue, and it is a matter of change through different times and environments.
