Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of university education in the productivity of the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth.
Methodology: The research method used was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was all employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth (N = 900). According to the minimum sample size of Krejcie and Morgan, 450 employees were selected by the simple random sampling method, and finally, 398 questionable questionnaires were analyzed. In order to investigate the objectives of this research work, the Hersey and Goldsmith Manpower Productivity Questionnaire and Gold Smith (1980) were used. Ten experts in the field of sport management were used to confirm the formal validity and content of the questionnaires, the reliability of the questionnaires was tested with a pilot study on 30 members of the research community, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.91. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, single-sample t-test, independent t-test, and structural equations were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results obtained from this research work showed that university education had a significant role in the productivity (t = 15.19, p = 0.01) of the staff of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. These results also showed that there was a significant difference between the productivity of the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth on the basis of gender and education so that the productivity of the employees with non-educational athletic education was higher than that for the employees with sport science education.
Conclusion: It can be argued that sport science colleges should be well-versed in the education and training curriculum, and that the Ministry of Sports and Youth should review their recruitment and employment indicators.
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