Designing a model for selecting of members of the board of directors in sport federations

The purpose of this research was to design a model for selecting the members of the sports federation.

The present research is in terms of the applied objective, in terms of methodology (qualitative-quantitative), which first qualitative method and then a quantitative method were implemented. The statistical population of this research was qualitative stage, including 15 heads of departments and vice chairmen of sports federations and university professors. In this research, snowball sampling method was used. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview and continued until the interviews reached theoretical saturation stage. Using the Morgan table formula, the sample size was estimated to be 221. Three coding steps were implemented in this study. In this research, the selection of board members of sports federations was considered as the main categories, and the rest of the variables were rooted around it. a researcher-made questionnaire was developed based on the main categories and sub categories. The face validity and content of the questionnaire were confirmed after point and comments of 15 experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was also reported through Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.72.

13 categories and 36 sub categories were obtained after the coding process, which after analysis fell into 4 categories and 16 subtypes. Among these categories, the political index ranked first and the economic index ranked the last.

Managers may have to use influential individuals in the government to have more influence and authority in order to have more influence and authority.