Designing A Model for the Management Role of Ministry of Sports and Youth in the Privatization of Iran's Sports

The study is to provide a model for measuring the management role of ministry of sports and youth in the privatization of the Iran's sports. This study is a kind of mixed and exploratory design mixed research. The first stage was qualitative and statistical society contains experts in management and privatization sport that all of them are chosen as the samples of research. For this, supplementary information was gathered through a review of theoretical foundations and Semi-structured interviews. Then data from the 20 interviews analyzed and coded in three stages by method grounded theory. The second phase was quantitative and is done through structural equation modeling. Since the statistical society was non countable and varied, 222 people were chosen through purposeful sampling, judgment method and mastering research. The researcher- made questionnaire from the stage of qualitative research was set as a research tool. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by15 experts and it distributed for 50 people and its reliability obtained 0.924 by Cornbrash’s alpha. To measuring the construction validity and survey factor structure data, the analysis exploratory and confirmatory factor is used. Comparing of variables showed that the impact of three components (decision-making, supervision and organization) is significant on the privatization of the Iran’s sports but planning component was not so. Organization component with regression coefficient 0.148 had the highest impact and, components supervision 0.092, decision-making 0.075, and planning 0.012 are located in the next ranks. Regarding the meaningful impact of mentioned factors, noticing of manager’s sport to these factors are of much importance in Iran's sports specialization.