Codification of Strategic Human Resource Management Plan in Ministry of Sports and Youth

The present work was carried out with the purpose of codification of the strategic human resource management plan in the Ministry of Sports and Youth. The research method applied in this work was a mixed explorative one (qualitative and quantitative). The results of this work showed that the human resource management in Iran’s Ministry of Sports and Youth was at the WO situation. Therefore, due to the dominance of weaknesses over the strengths through using some external opportunities, the mentioned organization should apply a conservative strategy.

Human resources (HRs), in comparison with the natural resources and physical resources, are the most fundamental assets in an organization that play an essential role in the organization's success. In the sports organizations, as the service-based industries, effectiveness is also related to the quality and quantity of HRs. The present work aims at surveying the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the HR management in Iran’s Ministry of Sports and Youth as a base for its HR strategy plan through using the SWOT model.

The research method applied in this work was a mixed explorative one (qualitative and quantitative). The statistical population included three groups. The first group was strategic committee that was held by 8 specialists. The second group included 23 participants that were selected through purposive sampling. The qualitative data collection to determine the weaknesses and strengths was fulfilled by studying the documents and semi-structured interviews. The quantitative part of the statistical population included 62 of all managers in the Ministry of Sports and Youth. There were completed and analyzed 46 researcher-made closed questionnaires. In this work, the qualitative data for determining the weaknesses, strength, opportunities, and threat were analyzed through the qualitative data analyzing methods, holding meetings, and conducting interviews. Furthermore, the quantitative data analyzing methods like descriptive statistics (middle and criterion deviation) and perspective ones (binomial test) were used in order to analyze the quantitative data.

The qualitative and quantitative results of this work showed that the HR management in Iran’s Ministry of Sports and Youth was at the WO situation. In other words, the mentioned organization, due to the dominance of weaknesses over strengths through using some external opportunities, should apply a conservative strategy. On the basis of the common method used in codification of the strategic plan, five systems including duty statement, outlook, axial values, purposes, and key indicators in performance of HR management and fourteen processes were codified.