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سال سوم شماره 1 (پاییز و زمستان 1394)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the self-esteem organizational development component and the job satisfaction of physical education teachers in Kermanshah.

The statistical population consisted of all the high school teachers (first and second rounds) in the city of Kermanshah, out of which, 110 persons were selected by the stratified sampling method. To collect the information, the questionnaires Cooper-Smith self-(1990), Dolt and Partners job satisfaction (2008) and Philbin organizational development (2009) were used. For analyzing the data, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the Pearson correlation and regression were used.

The results obtained showed a significant positive relationship between self-esteem dimensions (job, family and social self-esteem), and organizational development with job satisfaction. The regression analysis results showed that the organizational development component explained 29% of the variance in job satisfaction. Also the self-esteem components explained 22% of the variance in job satisfaction.

For flourishing education in the physical education section, more attention should be paid to the organizational development and self-esteem factors among the physical education teachers for acquiring job satisfaction and organizational effectiveness.

The purpose of this work was to study the voluntary motives of the physical education students participating in “National Congress Sport Sciences Needs of Future Generation”.
The statistical population of this research work consisted of the volunteers participating in "National Congress Sport Sciences Needs of Future Generation" (N = 70). Due to the low statistical population, the statistical sample was equal to the statistical population; 62 (88% of the) subjects participated in this research work. The instrument used in this research work was the questionnaire for voluntary motives developed by Andam et al. (2009), which measured the 7 dimensions career, material, purposive, progressive, social, protective, and commitment motives on 5 point of the Likert scale. The questionnaire validity was confirmed by 12 sport management experts. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was calculated by the Cronbach's alpha (α = 0.83). The data analyzing methods were the descriptive statistics and the inferential statistics. Since the data distribution was normal, the one-way ANOVA and the Friedman's tests were used.
The results obtained showed that the motivations of the students were career, material, purposive, progressive, social, protective, and commitment, respectively. Moreover, the career motives of the BSc students were more than those for the MSc and PhD students. Moreover, the PhD students had more material and progressive motives than the other students.
The present study suggests that the students’ educational degrees and kinds of their motives should be considered by sport managers in the students’ recruitment. In division of responsibilities, the sport event managers should also take into account the volunteer preferences.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the staff empowerment and the organizational health in Youth and Sport General Administration in the province of Hamedan.

The method implemented in this research work was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this work was the Youth and Sport General Administration staffs in the province of Hamedan (N = 161), and 118 persons were selected according to the Morgan simple random sampling method. The research instruments included the Hoy and Feldman’s (1996) organizational health and the Spreitzer’s (1995) empowerment questionnaires. Validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the experts, and their reliability was approved based on the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the staff empowerment questionnaire (α = 0.84) and the organizational health questionnaire (α = 0.92). Descriptive statistics were used to describe the status of the subjects and inferential statistics. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to evaluate the normal distribution of the data, and to examine the research variables, the Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis test was used.

The results obtained showed that there was a significant positive correlation between the empowerment and all the components of organizational health (the institutional level (r = 0.475, p = 0.001), management level (r = 0.278, p = 0.002), and technical level (r = 0.218, p = 0.019).

Managerial level, as a variable component of the organizational health, can be predicted by the staff empowerment, and the need for managers in this important matter requires a serious planning.

The purpose of this study was modeling the effectiveness of human capital due to delegating and empowering employees in sport organizations.

This study was descriptive-correlation. The statistical society in this study was all human capital of sport organizations of Isfahan. Statistical sample were selected randomly from the statistical society based on Cohen (2000). Principles Effective Delegation Industrial Society Questioner (1996), empowering employees questionnaire (Spreitzer, 1995), and organizational effectiveness questionnaire (Hsu, 2002) by reliability (α = 0.96, 0.84, 0.86) respectively were used to data collection. Also the content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the experts. Descriptive statistics, inferential and structural equation modeling were used to data analysis.

Providing a path analysis model, the relationship between the delegation and the empowerment, and enhancing the effectiveness of human capital was the favorable sport organizations. Also a regression model based on the relationship between the authority and effectiveness of the component choices and decisions was significant as well as the relationship between the empowerment and decision-making components.

In general, as the senior managers of sports organizations with the right choices to fit and provide the right conditions in various decision-making opportunities increased effectiveness and confidence in the staff.

According to the ability of personality to predict the employee behavior and also the important consequences of organizational silence, this research work was conducted with the purpose of predicting organizational silence through personality types among employees of Sport and Youth Office in the province of Kerman.

This research method was descriptive-correlation, conducted by the field study method. The statistical population was all the employees of Sport and Youth Office in Kerman, all of whom were chosen as the statistical sample (n = N = 92). The required data was gathered through the big five personality (Den Eve and Oswald, 2012) and organizational silence (Brinsfield, 2009) questionnaires, and analyzed using the multiple and multi-variate regression.

Based upon the findings, most of the employees had agreeable personalities and often showed an acquiescent silence behavior. Also the statistical analysis showed that agreeableness, neuroticism, and extraversion were good predictors for organizational silence in the future.

With these findings, it can be concluded that if managers want their employees, and share their questions, ideas, concerns, information, and opinions about the organization, they should consider the employees’ personality as a part of the staffing process. In this regard, it is suggested that managers give employment priority to conscientiousness and openness personality types.

In big cities, parks and gardens are the most important locations, where much of the family’s leisure time are placed, and thus they are necessary to have a good level of safety. For this reason, this study was conducted to assess the immune of privacy, lines, and sports equipment in forests, parks, and entertainment and sport areas of the 4th region in Tehran.

247 parks and gardens in the area were evaluated using a researcher-made questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to assess the considered immune status.

The results obtained showed that the safety status of privacy, lines, and sports equipment in the entertainment and sport areas of the 4th region in Tehran was, in overall, 35%, and in different parts of the region, no area was better.

The poor state of safety evaluation show that it is essential to take practical steps in the form of short-, medium-, and long-term programs, in order of preference, to promote the safety, especially for children. The most important actions in the framework of this research work suggestions were brought.

The purpose of this research work was to measure procrastination at work and its relationship with self-efficacy and dimension of perfectionism among the Sport and Youth Office staff in the province of Hamedan.

The method applied in this research work was descriptive-correlation. A sample of 110 employees was randomly selected. Appropriate statistical analyses including one-sample T-test, independent-sample T-test, Anova, Tukey, and Pearson correlation and multiple regression were utilized to analyze the data gathered using the procrastination of Tuchman (1991) questionnaire, perfectionism of Felatt (2005) questionnaire, and Self-efficacy of Shovartez (1999).

The results obtained show that 19.7% prevalence of procrastination at work among the employees. However, no significant differences were found to exist among the employees of different educational background and between different genders. The findings of this research work showed that there was a significant procrastination difference at work prevalence between working single/married, manager/employee, and with different job positions and tenures. The results obtained showed that there was a significant negative correlation between procrastination at work with self-efficacy and positive perfectionism, and that there was a significant positive correlation between procrastination at work and negative perfectionism. The multiple regression results showed a 10% previse self-efficacy of procrastination.

By adjusting negative perfectionism and increasing self-efficacy and positive perfectionism, it is possible to decrease procrastination at work among the administrative staff in order to achieve more efficiency.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the physical activity and the work ethic among the employees of the Sport and Youth offices in the province of Markazi.

The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population was 140 employees who worked in the Sport and Youth offices in the province of Markazi, 103 of whom were selected by the stratified sampling method as the statistical sample. Finally, the results of 88 questionnaires (85. 43٪) were analyzed. The research instruments were the global physical activity (2002) and the Gregory work ethic (1991) questionnaires. The analysis of data was done using the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression.

No significant relationship was found between the physical activity and the work ethic of employees, and the components of physical activity were not able to predict the work ethic and its components.

Physical activity and work ethic of the Sport and Youth Office employees are independent. However, it seems that more research works are required in this area.

The purpose of this research work was to explore the relationship between the organizational culture and the organizational entrepreneurship among the Islamic Republic of Iran's National Olympic Committee employees.

Methodology of this research work was correlative-descriptive, carried out by a descriptive field method. The statistical population was all the 116 staffs in Iran's National Olympic Committee. The statistical sample due to the limitations in the statistical population was all of the statistical society (N = n= 116). For gathering the data, the two standard questionnaires organizational culture questionnaire (Denison, 2000) and organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire (Hill, 2003) were used. The reliability of the questionnaires were approved by 5 experts in sport management. Furthermore, their consistency, measured by Cronbach’s alfa, were, respectively, 0.91 and 0.82. For the purpose of data analysis, descriptive statistical (average, standard deviation, Tables & Charts) and inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression) were used.

The results obtained showed that there was a significant positive relationship between the organizational culture and the organizational entrepreneurship among the Islamic Republic of Iran's National Olympic Committee employees. Also the results of regression showed that "involvement" and "adaptability" could be used for predicting the organizational entrepreneurship.

According to the results obtained, it seems that organizational culture plays an important role in organizational entrepreneurship. Thus for achieving an entrepreneur organization, it is necessary to pay a special attention to the culture of the organization.