Survey of the Managers Competencies of Sport Clubs in Isfahan Province

The aim of this research was to study the competencies of CEOs of sport clubs in Isfahan province. The population and sample were different managerial levels of clubs such as Sepahan, Zob Ahan, Foladmahan and Gitypasand in Isfahan province that were 83 manager. The validity of the researcher made questionnaire was confirmed by 15 experts and professors and the reliability coefficient by using Cronbach alpha which was α = 0.972. The survey questionnaires were distributed to 83 managers in different level of clubs and 91.5 percent of questionnaires were returned back. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to construct validity of questionnaire and repeated measurement and Friedman test was used to determine the priority of dimensions of job competencies: tasks, roles and skills (P=0/05). The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the results of confirmatory factor analysis and study of construct validity and the results fit the indexes indicating that the final models were suited and accurate. The results showed that there was significant difference between priority of job competencies including skills (4/21±0/52), roles (4/11±0/55) and tasks (4/06±0/52). At the same time, in this study political skill for the first time was introduced as one of the managerial skills and had the highest mean ranking ,but there was no significant difference between the priority of political skills and conceptual, human and technical skills (sig: 0.075) . Also, there was significant difference between priority of roles such as decisional (4/03±0/67), informational (4/16±0/61), interpersonal roles (4/09±0/56), and also between priority of tasks such as planning (4/20±0/60), Leadership (4/17 ± 0/62), Monitoring (4/02 ± 0/60) and Organizing (3/86 ± 0/58). Thus, high priority of skills between the dimensions of Job competencies indicates the importance of this dimension that with high priority decisional role and planning task can be an basis for selection, appointment and evaluation of CEOs in clubs.