Ozra Eftekhari; Masoomeh Hosseini; Abolfazl Farahani
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Objective: The aim of the research was to design a paradigmatic pattern for the development of street football in Iran with the help of ground theory.Methodology: The research is a qualitative type with an applied-developmental purpose. Participants included 21 academic experts in sports management, ...
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Objective: The aim of the research was to design a paradigmatic pattern for the development of street football in Iran with the help of ground theory.Methodology: The research is a qualitative type with an applied-developmental purpose. Participants included 21 academic experts in sports management, national football administrative & executive managers, and 34 related scientific articles, selected through theoretical sampling for interviews. Data analysis was conducted using open, axial & selective coding of documents and interviews through three rounds of interviews until theoretical saturation and consensus were achieved. The coefficient of agreement between coders was calculated at 0.90.Results: Qualitative results were presented in the form of 44 Categories, 179 Conceptual codes & 226 Items within 6 Structures of the paradigmatic pattern: Causal conditions (6 categories, 32 concepts, 39 items), Central phenomenon (7 categories, 18 concepts, 22 items), Strategies (10 categories, 37 concepts, 77 items), Contextual conditions (7 categories, 31 concepts, 39 items), Intervening conditions (6 categories, 24 concepts, 30 items), & Consequences (8 categories, 35 concepts, 59 items) across 4 axes (drivers, barriers, incentives, and requirements).Conclusion: Achieving the desired development of street football and reaching impactful national and transnational consequences necessitates the implementation of reforms and managerial strategies, as well as the growth and development of regulations.
Hamdollah Elyasi; Morteza Rezayi soofi; Abolfazl Farahani; Hamid Gasemi
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to design a model for the development of social capital in the student sports volunteering activities.Methodology: The present study was conducted based on the purpose of basic research and in terms of collecting exploratory information and using the data theory ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to design a model for the development of social capital in the student sports volunteering activities.Methodology: The present study was conducted based on the purpose of basic research and in terms of collecting exploratory information and using the data theory of the foundation. The statistical population was all professors, experts, specialists and expert professors active in the field of sports management and active in the field of student sports in Iran. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. The collected data were analyzed using open, axial and selective coding and the final model was extracted.Results: Based on the obtained results, causal factors in the categories of students' volunteer value, leisure and entertainment, sports volunteer function and the obligation to prevent social harms; Underlying conditions in the context of facilities, economic context, structural-legal context and managerial context; Interfering factors in two dimensions of barriers and facilitators; Strategies in factors such as adaptation of urban environments and sports venues, macro policy, allocation of funds and financial resources, employment of volunteer forces, promotion and dissemination of volunteer culture, active and continuous participation of students in sporting events and finally the consequences in three individual dimensions , Social and educational are counted.Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that the components of the model have variables and categories, the realization of which leads to the development of social capital in the student sports volunteering activities.
isa eskandari; Morteza Rezayi soofi; Abolfazl Farahani; Loghman Keshavarz
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Objective: The aim of this study was to rank the barriers to strategic management in the Department of Physical Education and Health Education using a hierarchical analysis process.Methodology: The research method is developmental-applied and strategically, sequentially exploratory (qualitative-quantitative). ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to rank the barriers to strategic management in the Department of Physical Education and Health Education using a hierarchical analysis process.Methodology: The research method is developmental-applied and strategically, sequentially exploratory (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population of the study was 27 staff managers of the Deputy of Physical Education and Health. Expert Choice paid.Results: According to the output of the system, the barriers to strategic management in the Deputy of Physical Education and Health Education were ranked as follows: human barriers 0.278, financial barriers 0.188, structural 0.96, design and planning barriers 0.90, educational barriers 0.84, environmental barriers 0.76, legal barriers 0.74, information barriers 0.74 and moral barriers 0.67.Conclusion: According to these results, the Deputy of Physical Education and Health is expected to take the necessary measures to design the system of development and empowerment of human resources, attracting funds and its proper distribution, creating appropriate infrastructure, equipment and facilities, as well as the strategic vision of managers.
mansoureh arzeshmand; Masoud Naderian; ali mohammad safania; abolfazl farahani
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to design an interpretive structural model for managing the diversity of general physical education departments of Payam-e-Noor universities in Iran.Methodology: This research is applied in terms of purpose and sequential (quantitative qualitative) in terms of ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to design an interpretive structural model for managing the diversity of general physical education departments of Payam-e-Noor universities in Iran.Methodology: This research is applied in terms of purpose and sequential (quantitative qualitative) in terms of method. The statistical population of this research in the first part includes existing and available researches in valid scientific databases in the field of diversity management and in the second part is the professors, managers and employees of Payam-e-Noor physical education departments. Sampling was done by purposive method. Identification of factors by meta-combination method and determination of relationships between them has been done by interpretive structural modeling.Results: The results showed that diversity management can be classified into four levels and in this regard, social factors(legislation, social, economic and cultural status) are in the first level, organizational factors (organizational management policies and procedures) are in the second level, Group factors (working group arrangement, integration of differences, fair treatment, entry into decision-making) are in the third level and individual factors (individual characteristics, identity concern, acceptance of performance standards, self-efficacy, employee heterogeneity, working group identity, internal and external work motivation, Innovation, effectiveness and welfare) are in the fourth level.Conclusion: Employee diversity at different social, organizational, group and individual levels should be considered by policy makers and human resource managers and more focus on the potential effects of effective diversity management.
Loghman Keshavarz; Abolfazl afarahani; bahram bahramipoor
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Objective: The aim of this study was to Analysis of Factors Affecting the international sports seats by the representatives of Iran. ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to Analysis of Factors Affecting the international sports seats by the representatives of Iran. Methodology: The statistical population of this study included all of the faculty members, administrators, athletes and representatives of the sports seats in the context of international seats, had the necessary knowledge and experience(n=495).In the qualitative phase, 25 individuals were selected purposefully and in quantitative phase , a sample of 220 people was chosen based on Morgan table. The instrument was a 55-item structured questionnaire to achieve the objectives of the study. The validity of the content and formal questionnaire was confirmed by 20 experts of sports management and its structural validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Its reliability was studied in a pilot study with 30 subjects and calculated as 0/83.For data analysis the descriptive statistic and inferential statistics methods including KMO, Bartlett exploratory factor analysis with orthogonal rotation and Friedman by application of AMOS software SPSS software were used. Results:The Research results showed that there are 6 factors in order of priority such as social and cultural factors, administrative, communicative , economical , professional and occupational, political as effective components contained within international sport seats are involved. Conclusion:It is suggested that organizations and senior executives of sport use all these effective and fundamental factors for gaining international seats and work to preserve and strengthen these factors, and by establishing a long-term plan, the acquisition of international sport seats as one Consider important strategies in sport.
loghman keshavarz; abolfazl farahani; abolfazl alizadehgolrizi
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Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a pattern of research commercialization in sport management research. Methodology: The participants were professors and Ph.D. candidates of sport management in State and Azad universities in Iran including 1050 individuals. 257 individuals were randomly ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a pattern of research commercialization in sport management research. Methodology: The participants were professors and Ph.D. candidates of sport management in State and Azad universities in Iran including 1050 individuals. 257 individuals were randomly selected as the sample. To accomplish the purposes of this study a survey of 50 questions was used. Sport management experts confirmed its face and content validity, which was established by factor analysis. The questionnaire reliability was established 0.763 using Cronbach's alpha. To analyse the data, descriptive and inferential statistics including Kolmogorov - Smirnoff, correlation coefficients and confirmatory factor analysis using SPSS 21 and AMOS 22 software were used. Result: The results showed that seven factors: strategies of educational and research, infrastructure, networking, personality and culture, researcher capabilities, financial and policies affect the commercialization of sport management research. Conclusion: To commercialize sport management researches, the relationship between sports organizations and sports science faculties should be spread and academic research should be done based on the needs of these organizations. Also some conditions should be provided in sports science faculties in order to add research commercialization to their culture
Shirin Shirzad MollaBashi; Abolfazl Farahani; MohammadReza Assad
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Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting the women's managerial appointment in the ministry of youth affairs and sports. It was a survey done as a field study. Methodology: The study population consisted of all female sport managers in the directorates of youth affairs ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting the women's managerial appointment in the ministry of youth affairs and sports. It was a survey done as a field study. Methodology: The study population consisted of all female sport managers in the directorates of youth affairs and sports. The sample size was equal to population size (N=n=124). The instrument included the demographics information and structured items. The Cronbach's alpha was 0.081. Descriptive statistics and Friedman rank test were used to analyze data. Results: Results indicated that effective factors of women's managerial appointment were self-confidence, religious beliefs, policy, family responsibilities and gender socialization respectively (X2=17.961, P<0/05). Conclusion: Women can win the managerial positions in the directorates of youth affairs and sports if the conditions are provided.
GholamReza ShabaniBahar; Abolfazl Farahani; Mohammadali Ghareh; Mohammad Siavashi
Volume 5, Issue 2 , January 2017, , Pages 109-126
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Objective: The aim of the current research was to determine the components of professional development among the faculty members of the Physical Education and Sport Sciences and assessing its fit.Methodology: The survey was conducted through field study. The statistical population consisted of ...
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Objective: The aim of the current research was to determine the components of professional development among the faculty members of the Physical Education and Sport Sciences and assessing its fit.Methodology: The survey was conducted through field study. The statistical population consisted of all the faculty members of physical education and sport sciences (N=205). The statistical sample was considered equal to the statistical population. The questionnaires were distributed among the participants and 173 ones were returned and analyzed. The structured questionnaire of Professional Development was used to collect data. Nine dimensions of professional development was identified through preliminary literature study. Then, six dimensions were confirmed by the experts' ideas as follows; research; specialty service; scientific publications; information and communication technologies and networks; English language skill; and teaching. The content validity and constructs validity of the instrument were approved by the specialists’ views and confirmatory factor analysis respectivelyمحاسبه ش. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined through Cronbach alpha with coefficient of 0.90. Descriptive statistics were used to categorize the findings andکلموگروف inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-اسمیرنوفSmirnov test, Pearson correlation coefficient and one sample t-test) were used for analyzing data. Also, SEM (structural equations model) was used to examine the causal relationship by LISREL 9.2.Results: The analysis supported the process of fitting model to data . The results showed that the development model of the faculty members had desirable goodness. The dimension of scientific publications (3.79) and English language skill (3.98) were below average.
Morteza Rezaei Soufi; Abolfazl Farahani; Jalal YarAhmadi
Volume 5, Issue 1 , May 2016, , Pages 51-64
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of market orientation on business performance in the athletic companies.Methodology: It was a correlation study. The statistical sample using the random sampling included 113 directors and officials of various athletic companies all ...
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of market orientation on business performance in the athletic companies.Methodology: It was a correlation study. The statistical sample using the random sampling included 113 directors and officials of various athletic companies all over the country. To gather the information, the culture of market orientation questionnaire by Nero and Slater (1990), Market sagacity questionnaire by Kohli and Jaworski (1990) and Business Performance Questionnaire by Holly et al (2005) were used. Questionnaire's validity was confirmed using the professors and sports industry experts and reliability of the questionnaire, based on Cranach’s alpha, was reported 0.82.Results: After data collection, in order to analyze the data, mean and standard deviation in descriptive statistics and regression test in inferential statistics were used. Analysis was done using SPSS 18 software at the significance level of p<0.05. Results of regression analysis showed there was a significantly positive correlation between market orientation cultural and business performance (p<0.01). But, there is no significant relationship between market intelligence and business performance (sig= p>0.05).Conclusion: Therefore, it is recommended to the athletic directors that the coordination between tasks, competitor identification, and understanding customer's need are essential in order to greater profitability.
Farideh Hadavi; Mehdi Talebpour; Abolfasle Farahani; Azam Nakhieniazi
Volume 4, Issue 2 , June 2015, , Pages 136-151
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Objective: This study aims to predict organizational entrepreneurship of Sports and Youth Ministry managers and experts based on emotional and cultural intelligence. Methodology: The study is practical and correlational plan. 273 managers and experts of Sport and Youth Ministry were selected as sample. ...
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Objective: This study aims to predict organizational entrepreneurship of Sports and Youth Ministry managers and experts based on emotional and cultural intelligence. Methodology: The study is practical and correlational plan. 273 managers and experts of Sport and Youth Ministry were selected as sample. Subjects completed three questionnaires of Ang’s cultural intelligence, Shering’s emotional intelligence and Marguerite Hill’s organizational entrepreneurship and their reliability were determined as 0.78, 0.87, and 0.82 respectively. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis (Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression). Results: The study results showed that there is a positive relationship between organizational entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence (r=0.30) and cultural intelligence (r=0.29). Results of stepwise regression analysis indicated that all aspects of cultural intelligence (cognitive (ß =-0.21), meta-cognitive (ß=0.17), motivation (ß=0.20) and behavioral (ß=0.18) dimensions) are good predictors of organizational entrepreneurship, while only two dimensions of emotional intelligence (self-awareness (ß =0.19), and self-management (ß=0.19)) can predict organizational entrepreneurship. Conclution: In summary, emotional and cultural intelligence affects organizational entrepreneurship; and Sports and Youth Ministry managers and experts can increase organizational entrepreneurship rate to some extends using these major types of intelligence.
