Effective factors on change management at physical education faculty

Continuous changes at educational area are considered as an important challenge for managers. Change management is one of the important subjects in management science. The aim of present research is to study effective factors on change management at physical education faculty that was done in qualitative method. Statistical universe included managers and members of scientific mission in physical education faculty of public universities. Among them, 13 people were selected by snowball method. The tool for gathering data was semi-structured interview. To analyze interviews' contents, conventional content analysis was used. After analyzing contents, extracted codes were classified in different main concept so that 21 extracted concepts were categorized in three main themes including intra-organization environment, extra-organization environment and change process. Validity and reliability of the research were confirmed in four dimensions of trustability, shiftability, dependability and conformability. Three main extracted themes were known as effective factors on change management at physical education faculties. According to the results, managers should plan appropriately for making change to react changes properly.