Abstract
Summary
The purpose of this research work is to identify the characteristics of the selection of human resources of the Iraqi Wrestling Federation qualitative approach and foundation data method. Semi-structured qualitative interviews are conducted with 16 staff managers of the Ministry of Sports, the Board of Directors of the Wrestling Federation, and the professors of sports management in Iraq until a theoretical saturation is reached. The findings show 58 themes in the form of 9 features that pay attention to social issues, resources, infrastructure, advertiser, cooperation and partnership, innovative and creative, educational and scientific, responsible, responsive, having individual ability.
Introduction
Now, in the era of globalization and rapid technological advancement, sports organizations require a better management system than in the past to grow and stay at a high level of competition (1).
In order to achieve their goals, the sports organizations need new financial resources, physical resources, human resources, and technical resources, and the managers are constantly making decisions for the correct allocation of these resources (2).
Methodology and Approach
The current research work was an interpretative type with an inductive approach, which, considering the complex nature of information and the mutual effects of various factors on human resources, and in order to identify the characteristics of human resource selection in the Iraqi Wrestling Federation, a qualitative approach and grounded theory method were used. At the first step of the research work, they collected a preliminary list of factors related to the selection of human resources in sports organizations through the background study and the collection of documents and library information, then using the purposeful sampling method, semi-structured in-depth qualitative interviews. It was conducted with 16 people from the research community, which included all the staff managers of the Ministry of Sports, the Board of Directors of the Wrestling Federation, and the professors of sports management in Iraq, until reaching a theoretical saturation. At the next step, after conducting the interviews, the findings were analyzed using the context-oriented method. In this way, after conducting and editing the interviews, different opinions were coded and classified in the same conceptual groups and qualitatively analyzed. Coding was done in an open and axial manner. The time of each interview was between 30 and 50 minutes, all the interviews were recorded with the permission of the people, and in order to determine the validity and reliability of this research work, like other qualitative research works, acceptability, transferability, and verifiability were used. In order to increase acceptability in this research work, the data was collected from various sources and various knowledgeable people. In order to check the reliability of the interviews, the intra-subject agreement reliability method of two coders was used, and the reliability rate between the two coders was equal to 73%, which confirmed the reliability of the codings of this research work.
Results and Conclusion
In the open coding phase, 92 initial concepts were extracted from the implemented interviews. In axial coding, the process of relating categories to sub-categories and linking them was done. The extracted concepts and conceptual codes in axial coding. In sports organizations, human resources play a key role. The current research work also pointed out the important features for choosing these people. One of the important and key issues in the selection of human resources is how they relate to the society and pay attention to the social issues (Jafari et al. (2019) and Hosseinpour et al.) Without the existence of certain values in the society, people will have problems in formulating their social goals and ideals. Another important issue is the amount of attention human resources pay to the internal organizational resources. The correct use of the federation's resources and energy, optimal use of the federation's consumables, trustworthiness in the federation's important issues, reduction of the federation's unnecessary expenses, and creation of new sources of income for the federation. Other important factors that are required to select human resources are paying attention to the values and vision and goals of the sports organization including protecting the natural and artificial sports infrastructure, trying to institutionalize the values of the federation, providing a solution to solve the deficiencies in the internal policies and trends of the federation, trying to achieve the goals and vision of the federation, the quality of work based on processes and procedures and trying to achieve work goals. Hammad (2021) (3) and Raqiq et al. (2021) (4) have mentioned the infrastructure issue in their research works. Also the experts agreed that people should be good missionaries; it means to present a positive image of the federation for the athletes and the society to inform other employees about the organizational missions and to transfer their information to their colleagues. Ben Shatouh (2020) (5) mentioned the topic of knowledge transfer in their research work. Cooperation and participation of human resources can play a decisive role in their selection including support and participation in the implementation of federation programs, participation in the system of suggestions and criticisms of the federation, participation in the annual calendar events of the federation, compatibility and accompaniment with the new programs of the federation, communication with the managers and colleagues in the federation, participation in decision-making and organization of the federation issues, and the satisfaction of colleagues and managers for his presence in the federation and welcoming change and transformation. This part of the research work was in line with the research works of Tayibi and Ben Salim (2021) (6) and Habib (2021) (7). Among the other factors are innovative and creative human resources such as providing innovation and initiative in assigned tasks, productivity in performing assigned tasks, inventions and discoveries and obtaining patent licenses, the ability to use new technologies and application software, interest in performing tasks, and having the spirit of innovation in this field.
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