نشریه مدیریت ورزشی
پیاپی 8 (بهار 1390)

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between job involvement and organizational climate in physical education teachers in high schools of Ahvaz city. The statistical population consisted of all male and female physical education teachers in the city of Ahvaz who were selected as the sample of this study (N=n=146). Methodology of this field study was descriptive – correlation. A research-made demographic questionnaire, the standard job involvement questionnaire of Edwards and Kilpatrick and standard organizational climate questionnaire of Sussman and Deep were used to gather the data. The questionnaire reliabilities were determined as 0.74 and 0.83 respectively using Cronbach’s alpha. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data (p<0.05). Descriptive findings showed that mean job involvement in both male and female teachers was the same (52.55 vs 52.96). Mean climate of boys’ high schools was lower than that of girls’ high schools (57.94 vs 60.32). There was a positive significant relationship between job involvement and organizational climate in teachers (r=0.45, P=0.001). There was no significant difference between organizational climate (P=0.236, t=-1.19) and job involvement (t=1.68, P= 0.17) in four educational districts in the city of Ahvaz (P=0.71, t=0.45). There was no significant difference in job involvement between male and female teachers (t=0.348, P=0.729). Finally, there was no significant relationship between job involvement and subject's demographic characteristics such as age, gender, marital status, employment status and years of service. It is suggested that principals of high schools enhance job involvement in teachers through preparing a fair and optimal climate.

The aim of the present research was to identity and to present the optimum state of Iran sport media management from the viewpoints of top media and sport specialists. To achieve an optimum theory, Q method was used. A researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 60 questions was designed using the 7-point Likert scale and its validity was confirmed by specialists and university professors. Statistical population included specialists of communication and physical education fields. The sample was not randomly selected (n=20). In the present research, descriptive statistics were used to describe respondents’ state and Pearson test and factor analysis were used to find correlations among respondents. Based on the results and similarity of answers, respondents were divided into two groups: media (n=12) and sport (n=8). The comparison of the opinions of the two groups based on the Z standard scores showed that two groups from the total 60 questions of this research were in agreement with 50 questions (positive and negative agreement). Finally, the results of the research showed that the viewpoint of service – oriented media management was accepted as the most optimum sport media management system.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the psychological empowerment factors (meaningfulness, competency, self-determination, impact and trust) and organizational entrepreneurship in staff of physical education general administration department of Khorasan Razavi. For this purpose, 61 staff members were selected as the sample of this study. The study was descriptive correlation. Spreitzer psychological empowerment questionnaire (consisting of 18 questions) was used to collect the data of psychological empowerment factors and Samad Aghaee questionnaire was used to collect the data of organizational entrepreneurship. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to investigate the relationship between the psychological empowerment factors and organizational entrepreneurship. Also, SPSS (version 1.5) was used to analyze the data. The results showed a direct significant relationship between four psychological factors (meaningfulness, competency, self-determination, impact and trust) and organizational entrepreneurship (p<0.05). There was no significant relationship between competency and organizational entrepreneurship (p<0.05).

The purpose of this research was to design and codify the development strategy of championship sports in Kurdistan province. The statistical population consisted of physical education professors, managers of physical education departments and the deputies of the director general of the province, educated coaches and M.S. students. The statistical sample consisted of 32 subjects which equaled the statistical population. To collect the data, library resources, literature and background review, interviews and open as well as closed questionnaires were used. The validity of the closed questionnaire (a researcher-made questionnaire) was approved by the professors and the reliability by Cronbach's alpha (a= 0.88). Friedman test and group discussion were used to analyze the data. The most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in championship sports were identified and ranked in the existing and desirable situations. The most important ones were selected via group discussion and the gap between the existing situation and the desired situation was identified. The evaluation matrix of internal factors (2.29) and external factors (2.44) showed that the strategic position of the province is in WT region. Finally, regarding the research findings, specifically the strategic status of the province, necessary strategies for the championship sports in the province were developed by group discussion.

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between leadership styles and emotional intelligence of the group sport team coaches participating in the ninth Sport Olympiad for male university students in IRAN. 56 coaches were randomly selected based on Krejcie and Morgan table as the statistical sample. For collecting the data, Luthans (1985) leadership style inventory and Bar-On (1997) emotional intelligence inventory were used. For the analysis of the data, correlation coefficient of Pearson and one-way ANOVA analysis were used.The results of the present study indicated a significant direct correlation between people¬-oriented leadership style and emotional intelligence (r = 0.296, P < 0.05). The results also indicated a significant direct correlation between coaches’ coaching career and coaches’ age with people-oriented leadership style (r= 0.353,P>0.05), (r=0.381, P>0.05). It can be concluded that as coaches’ emotional intelligence, age and career increase, they tend more towards people-oriented leadership style.

The purpose of this research was to survey the attitudes of students living in University of Tehran dormitories towards sport for all. The method of the research was descriptive. Population consisted of all students who lived in University of Tehran dormitories (n=7439) out of which 370 subjects were selected by Morgan table. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the data; the validity was approved by 10 professional sport management professors and the reliability by Chronbach's alpha coefficient (a=0.82). Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The results showed that 73.1% of all students participated in sport for all and 29.6% did not participate in any sport activity. Barriers to participate in sport for all were as follows: being busy, the importance of other issues, laziness and bore. Motivations to participate in sport for all were body fitness, joy, happiness and well-being. 82% of students were aware of the positive effects of sport for all on mind and body and 6% believed that sport for all did not have any effect on their well-being. 53.2% were moderately satisfied with sport for all in the dormitories and 32.7% were highly satisfied with these activities. 5.2% extremely, 49.7% highly and 45.1% at a low level participated in sport for all.

The aim of this study was to qualitatively analyze Iran scientific products of physical education and sport sciences in ISI journals. It investigated Iran scientific products in physical education and sport sciences based on a range of topics including researcher's collaboration with domestic universities and at the international level, the publication pattern of authors, subjects and the specification of the subgroups and branches. The method of bibliography was used in this study and research data were collected from Web of Science database which is one of the branches of ISI. The findings showed that only 128 documents have been entered in the above mentioned database from Iran within 30 years (1980-2009). Most researches belonged to sport physiology and the branch of energy systems. Moreover, the factor of collaboration had an important effect on the average number of documents.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between transformational\ transactional leadership styles and organizational citizenship behavior in Physical Education Organization of Iran and which dimensions of these styles enhanced organizational citizenship behaviors of employees. The population of this study consisted of 273 employees of Physical Education Organization; 220 employees completed the questionnaire who consisted the sample of the study. The employees were required to complete Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass & Avolio 2000) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (Podsakoff et al. 1990). The validity and reliability coefficients of the questionnaires were calculated. The findings indicated that transformational leadership style and organizational citizenship behavior were moderate. There was a significant relationship between transformational\ transactional leadership styles and organizational citizenship behavior. Multiple regression analysis indicated that transformational leadership style was a stronger predictor of organizational citizenship behavior. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that transformational leadership style had more effect on organizational citizenship behavior. It is recommended that managers use transformational leadership style.

The aim of the present survey was to investigate and compare job burnout between professors of physical education and other fields of study. This survey used a discursive comparative approach. The statistical population consisted of professors from human sciences faculties in universities of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti and Allameh Tabataba’i. 65 professors were selected as the sample using stratified random sampling. Maslach job burnout evaluation questionnaire was used; its validity was determined by experts and the reliability by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (?=0.81). SPSS analysis and independent t test, K-S, linear regression and U-Mann Whitney test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that burnout was low in physical education professors while it was moderate in other professors. There was a significant relationship between job burnout of the two groups. No significant relationship was found between job burnout and gender, neither between job burnout and career. However, a significant relationship was observed between age and job burnout.