Sport Management
Fatemeh Rezapour; Mehrdad Moharamzadeh; Nasrin Azizaian-Kohan; Abbas Naghizadeh-Baghi
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The purpose of this research is to identify the characteristics of effective leaders of sports organizations. The research method was qualitative and based on phenomenology. The statistical population of the research was the professors of the academic faculties of the country's universities, who had ...
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The purpose of this research is to identify the characteristics of effective leaders of sports organizations. The research method was qualitative and based on phenomenology. The statistical population of the research was the professors of the academic faculties of the country's universities, who had leadership and management experience in sports organizations. The validity and reliability of the research was confirmed through the indicators of credibility, transferability, trustworthiness and verifiability. After step-by-step coding based on the phenomenological method, 77 sub-themes were obtained, which were divided into 9 topics: leader's power, leader's personality, leader's views, leader's behavior, leader's communication, leader's ethics, leader's skills, members' views towards the leader. , leader's actions were placed as the characteristics of effective leaders of sports organizations. The results of the research showed that the characteristics of effective leaders in sport organizations are power (charismatic power, expert power, etc.), personality (self-confidence, vision, etc.), leader's views (belief in change, perspective idealistic and...) leader's behavior (appropriate body posture, extra-role behaviors, etc.) leader's communication (good relations with subordinates, etc.) , technical, etc.) is the view of the members towards the leader (the acceptability and cooperation of the members, etc.) and the actions of the leader (strategic planning and evaluation right under the hands, etc.).
Mansour Asadi; masoud imanzadeh; Mehrdad Moharamzadeh; nasrin azizian kohan
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The purpose of this study was to design a model of spiritual leadership to develop the job enthusiasm of the staff of the General Directorate of Sports and Youth in the northwest of the country. The statistical population of the study included 372 employees of all departments of sports and youth in the ...
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The purpose of this study was to design a model of spiritual leadership to develop the job enthusiasm of the staff of the General Directorate of Sports and Youth in the northwest of the country. The statistical population of the study included 372 employees of all departments of sports and youth in the northwest of the country. According to Morgan's table, 180 people were selected as a statistical sample as a statistical sample.The research method was descriptive-correlation. Research measurement tools include; The Fry et al.'s (2005) Spiritual Leadership Questionnaire and the Salvanava and Shuffley (2001) Job Enthusiasm Questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by 4 sports management experts and the reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of spiritual leadership with 0.810 and job enthusiasm of 0.848, respectively. Structural equation modeling by SPSS22 and AMOS22 software was used to analyze the information collected in the inferential statistics section. The results of model fitting (GFI = 0.94, CFI = 0.91, NFI = 0.94) showed the appropriateness of the model. Also, the results of research path analysis showed that spiritual leadership and its dimensions have a positive and significant direct effect on the development of employees' job enthusiasm. As a result, to develop and increase the job enthusiasm of employees of all departments of sports and youth, managers should use the spiritual leadership style.
