مجله پژوهش های کاربردی در مدیریت ورزشی
پیاپی 16 (بهار 1395)

The Purpose of this Study was to determine the Development of Structal Equation Models of Participative Management and Organizational Agility in Selected Iranian Sports Federations. Measuring Instruments Included Participative Management questionnaire (Labaf and Ranjbar, 1381) and Organization Agility Standard Questionnaire (Spitzer, 2007) is applied with face and Content Validity. Cronbach's Alpha Coefficients Questionnaire reliability was 0.88 & 0.96 respectively. The Statistical Population of this Research was Including all Islamic Republic of Iranian Sport Federations and Statistical sample was 269 Experts and Executives of 22 of iraian Selected Sport Federations to Complete Purposive sampling. The research method is Correlational Method used Structal Equation Models (Structal Equation & path diagram) through LISREL Statistical Software.
Results indicate that there was Positive significant Impact of the Components (goal setting, decision making, problem solving and change) on Participative Management and Positive Significant Impact of the Components (Speed, Competency, Felxiability, and Responsiveness) on Organizational Agility. In total, there was Positive Significant impact of Participative Management on Organizational Agility. Those Sequential Model Fitting Procedures Indicate Impacted Participative Management on Organizational Agility in Selected Iranian Sports Federations. Therefore, by Setting Goals and Developing a Cohesive Participatory between Managers and Staff of Sports Federations Improving Organizational Agility in Sports Federations in the Future can be Identified.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social responsibility on club reputation of selective teams in football premier league of Iran including: Esteghlal, perspolice and Travkorsazi. Population for this study was fans of three teams in football premier league. Since the population was unlimited, sample size determined by using formula and obtained 384 people in sum. Data collection tool was club social responsibility researcher – made questionnaire based on Galbrith questionnaire and club reputation questionnaire based on resler questionnaire. For data collection, the social responsibility questionnaire and club reputation questionnaire (prepared according to the Chan questionnaire 2005), and validity approved by 6 professional sport management professors and the reliability by choronbachs alpha coefficient. To verify the Construct Validity of social responsibility instrument, Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed. In order to verify the normality of data distribution, the skewness, and Kurtosis indexes were used. Data analyzed by Descriptive and inferential tests such as means, standard division and multiple regression. Result showed that all variable of social responsibility affects the reputation of the club. In sum 78 percent of reputation Variance is predicting by social responsibility. Based on result, attending to social responsibility such as participating in the games aimed at helping needy people, implementing the federations rules, protection of sport for all and such activities can increase club reputation.

The aim of this study was to finding the relationship between managers’ transformational leadership style and employees’ entrepreneurial behaviors. The method of this research was descriptive (correlation) and the total population included all of the managers and staff members employed at the Sport and Youth Organization of the Isfahan Province in 1393 (N= 405). The size of the participants was calculated 196 according to the Kerjcie and Morgan’s method. The method of sampling was stratified random sampling since the population of the staff members employed at the Sport and Youth Departments is vary in different cities of the Isfahan Province. Two reliable questionnaires for measuring the entrepreneurship and transformational leadership style (MLQ) were employed in this research. Also, the regression and correlation tests were used for analyzing the data. The results indicated that there is a positive and significant correlation between managers’ transformational leadership style and staff’s entrepreneurial behavior. Furthermore, it is found that managers’ transformational leadership style affects the staff’s innovation, interaction, risk tacking and opportunity identifying factors.

This study has structural equations model presented the factors affecting development of purchasing sports goods by internet. The research method is a survey and its target is applicable. The population of the research faculty and graduate students and Ph.D. in Physical Education (N =3196) public universities across the country; A total of 436 patients with cluster were selected. The required data was collected using a questionnaire. The face validity of the Questionnaire is verified based on 10 sports and insurance management professionals and content validity was calculated based on lavshy (CVI=0/86).In order to identify and assess the validity of the exploratory factor analysis was used. The overall internal reliability of the questionnaire, the Cronbach's alpha (α=0/81), respectively. For data analysis, parametric tests, one- sample t -test and ANOVA and post hoc Bonferroni’s multiple significance level of p

The aim of this research is to investigate sport tourism potentials and factors affecting their development in East Azerbaijan. 40 people were selected from among managers and authorities of sport and tourism (including all staff of general administration of physical education and Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization of East Azerbaijan) through simple random sampling as subjects in summer 2014. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire which validity and reliability were used by content validity (opinion of professors and experts related to sport and tourism issues) and Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. It was finally analyzed using SPSS software using factor analysis. To evaluate the capability of sport tourism development in East Azerbaijan, three types of factors were studied including; 1. Push factors, 2. Pull factors and 3. Deterrent factors. The most important components of push factor were identified as achieving peace, relaxation, and physical and mental refreshment. The most important component of pull factor is transportation situation and the most important element of deterrent factor is insufficient leisure time in development of sports tourism in East Azerbaijan Province.

This study analyzed the effects of application information and Communication technology on organizational attitudes (organizational commitment and job satisfaction) by Physical education faculty Members and adjunct professors at Payame noor University. This is a descriptive study that survey methodology was carried out. The statistical sample and statistical population Physical Education Faculty were identical (80 Members) and 250 adjunct professor members were selected by cluster random sampling as samples (with population 700 people). Data collection tool was Questionnaires information and Communication technology (ghasemi, farahani and mashatan,2012) job satisfaction (Susan J, 2003) and organizational commitment (lina et al,2007). Validity was obtained(Formal and Logical) and reliability obtained by Cronbach’s α each of the questionnaires (0/73, 0/84, 0/88) was calculated. Inferential statistics(Kolmogorov - Smirnov to determine how to distribute data, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis) in order to were used to investigate the research hypothesis. The results show that the correlation between information and communication technology and organizational attitud are positive and significant (p

The purpose of this study, was to investigate the effect of physical activity on quality of life in older women Kermanshah Province. Research method was descriptive-corrolational that has been done as The field. The population were all the active and inactive older women that were 60 or more. 300 people were selected based upon random sampling Multi-stage cluster. The information collected by means of demographic questionnaires, Beck et all Physical Activity Questionnaire (1982) and Ware and Sherbourne quality of life and health questionnaire (1992), which determined reliability of the 0/78 and 0/87. Descriptive statistics was used to data analysis. The Results showed that there is significant relationship between physical activity and quality of life in older women (p

The aim of this study was to examine the factorial structure of the Behavioural Regulation in Sport Questionnaire in college sport. 503 student athletes (265 female and 238 male) who membered as Urmia college sport teams were selected by cluster random sampling. The exploratory factor analysis results determined 6-factor model for the structure of the BRSQ-6 with 70.29% of total variance. The confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable goodness of fit indices for the data. Also, the significant positive relationship of autonomous dimensions and negative relationship of controlling dimensions of BRSQ-6 with task-oriented goal orientation and intention to sport continue, confirmed the concurrent validity. The items for all sub-scales have a high internal consistency above of 0.80 of Cronbach's alpha. Overall, the findings suggest that BRSQ-6 is a valid and reliable measurement for assessing sport motivation regulations in college sport.Key words: Factor Structure, Behavioral Regulation in Sport, College Sport, Self-determined Motivation.

The goal of this research is development of dimensions of attracting and retaining the spectators in the Iran women's volleyball from the perspective views of experts which is performed by qualitative approach. This research performed by framework and thematic analysis. Population research consisted of women's experts in volleyball (more than 15 years active history) (55 person) that 25 experts selected by purposive sampling and snowball technique as research sample. Here the semi-structured interview was used for production of the data. In order to make this research more reliable, external inspection and validation tools were used by participants. We used SPSS 22 software to investigate the demographic characteristics. For determining the codes and main topics and also presenting the graphic models, we used from qualitative data analysis software as NVivo 8. In this research we extracted 7 themes to attract the spectators (the attractiveness of the league, media, advertising, gym and sporting equipment, making culture, technical performance and material benefits) and 12 themes to retain the spectators (communication tools, trust, entertainment programs, national media coverage, advertising and event information, interaction of personnel, welfare and side service of event, satisfaction, gym and equipment of sport, technical performance, material benefits and management of the event). Due to the special importance of the presence of spectators in sport events, it seems that the awareness and identification of managers and practitioner of women's volleyball are important factors to attract and retain the spectators in sport events.

The objective of the present study was to identify the relationship of time management with planning tendency and creativity of managers and employees of the ministry of youth and sports. Methodological surveying is correlation and has taken place in field. Population composed of all experts of the Ministry of sport and youth (90 Manager, 600 employees) that 307 (73 Manager & 234 Employees) persons were determined based on Morgan table. The Time Management Questionnaire (α=0.89), Koein Standard Questionnaire (α=0.81), and Jazni’s Job Creativity Questionnaire (α=0.76) were used as instruments. To classify the results, descriptive statistics, to test the normality of the data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and to find the relationships and predict the variables, Pearson correlation and Multiple Regressions were used respectively. According to the results, significant positive relationships were observed between time management and its components and planning tendency. Similarly, significant positive relationships were observed between time management and its components and creativity. Regression results showed that 28% of planning tendency and 44.7% of creativity total variances were associated with components of time management. Based on the results, there were close relationships between time efficiency and planning and time efficiency and creativity. In addition, planning could be considered as one of the most important factors in the process of time management. Work time and personal affairs planning plays an important role in planning tendency and creativity. Moreover, Daily personal activities scheduling is very important in appropriate use of available time during the day.