The Study of Factors Affecting the Development of Wisdom-Oriented Sport Organizations

The aim of this study was to investigate those factors affecting the development of wisdom-oriented sport organizations. The research method was survey. The present study was designed to identify and prioritize effective factors. In the first part, the statistical population consisted of university professors, PhD students and managers and experts of the Ministry of Sport and Youth, and 200 of them were selected as the sample of the study by convenience sampling method.  In the second part, the statistical population consisted of experts in the field of wisdom in sport, and 17 of them were selected as the sample by snowball sampling method. In the first part, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. In this study, exploratory factor analysis and group AHP method were used. The whole process of analyzing the data was performed in SPSS and Super Decisions software. The results showed that 5 factors (cultural, human, leadership, environment and vision) explained about 75% of the variances of wisdom-oriented development. The results of the ranking showed that leadership factors with a normal score of 0.318 were most important in the development of wisdom-oriented sport organizations. Therefore, the improvement of wisdom-orientation in sport organizations depends largely on leadership and its related indicators, which creates conditions to improve wisdom-orientation in sport organizations.