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.
Sara Kazemi; Bahram Yousefi; Saeed Sadeghiborojerdi
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of quality of working life on career plateau and organizational indifference of the staff of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The method of this research is descriptive - correlation. The statistical population of the ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of quality of working life on career plateau and organizational indifference of the staff of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The method of this research is descriptive - correlation. The statistical population of the study was the official staff of the National Olympic Committee, which returned 88 analytical questionnaires. The tools used in this research were Walton standard quality of work quality questionnaire (1973), Dannyfard and et al, Organizational indifference (2006) and Donald Alfred (2008) Organizational Plateau Questionnaire. Their reliability was 0.87, and 0.75 respectively. For formal and content validity, experts were used and for construct validity the confirmatory factor used. for confirmatory factor analysis for construct validity. To analyze the data and fit the model, Structural Equation Modeling was used using PLS Smart software. The findings shows that the overall quality of life has a negative and reverse effect on the two variables of occupation and organizational indifference. career plateau also has a positive and direct effect on the organizational indifference. Considering the intermediary role of occupation between the two variables of quality of Life quality and organizational indifference, with regard to the significance of the paths, career plateau can be called a partial intermediate variable between two variables. Regarding the results, it is suggested that organizations improve the quality of work life by promoting the conditions for reducing organizational indifference, and career plateau of employees in the organization.
Naeimeh Keshtgar; Seyed Salahedin Naghshbandi; Zahra Nobakht
Volume 4, Issue 3 , August 2017, , Pages 119-127
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The overall purpose of the present study was to examine the perceived organizational support with organizational performance through the role of organizational mediation in the staff of the sports and youth departments. The research method was descriptive-analytic and correlation type. The statistical ...
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The overall purpose of the present study was to examine the perceived organizational support with organizational performance through the role of organizational mediation in the staff of the sports and youth departments. The research method was descriptive-analytic and correlation type. The statistical population of this study was the staff of the youth and sport departments of Tehran province. The population of this study was 420 people. According to Morgan's table, the number of statistical samples was 200. Which was analyzed by simple random sampling method. For data collection, the perceived organizational support scales of Eisenberger et al. (1986), Homs Catherine (2012) and organizational performance questionnaire Douglas, Worry and Harker (2000) were used. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Etagen correlation coefficient, Spearman test and structural equation model. It should be noted that in this research SPSS version 22 and Amos software have been distributed abnormally. Also, the results of the Eta coefficient test showed that there is no relationship between demographic variables (age, gender, marital status, educational level and service record) and perceived organizational support, organizational vocation and organizational performance among employees of sport and youth departments of Tehran province. Spearman test results show that there is a relationship between perceived organizational support and organizational vocation with organizational performance in the society under study. Also, the results of the intermediate model test showed that the variable between perceived organizational support and organizational performance is considered by considering the role of the mediator of the organizational vocation, is confirmed.
Mehrdad Moharramzadeh; Hooshyar Fattahi; Seyed Mohammad Kashef
Volume 3, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 21-30
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of servant leadership on intellectual capital; test the role of mediator organizational socialization Is done. The research method was descriptive and co relational study, structural equation modeling. Statistical population included all male and female employees ...
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of servant leadership on intellectual capital; test the role of mediator organizational socialization Is done. The research method was descriptive and co relational study, structural equation modeling. Statistical population included all male and female employees in the departments of Youth and Sports in Western Azerbaijan province is 219 that by using sampling method purposefully non-random statistical sample 196 persons as sample were select for study. For gathering data, three standard questionnaires Servant leadership, intellectual capital and socialization were used. Research data after collecting by using statistical software LISREL, SPSS were analyzed. Results of Structural equation modeling showed that the direct effect of servant leadership (0/35) and organizational socialization (0/47) on intellectual capital at the level of 0/001is positive and significant. The direct effect of servant leadership (0/69) on organizational socialization at level of 0/001 is positive and significant. Indirect effect of servant leadership on intellectual capital with role of mediator organizational socialization (0/30) at level of 0/001 is positive and significant
Masoud Yaminifirooz; Maziyar Kalashi; Seyed Emad Hosseini; Maryam Taghizadeh
Volume 3, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 49-58
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The aim of this study was to assess the effective indicators on transformation-oriented Leadership from the perspective of Youth and Sports General Department staff in Alborz Province. this study was a descriptive - analytic survey which was applicable in terms of its purpose and was fieldwork in terms ...
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The aim of this study was to assess the effective indicators on transformation-oriented Leadership from the perspective of Youth and Sports General Department staff in Alborz Province. this study was a descriptive - analytic survey which was applicable in terms of its purpose and was fieldwork in terms of the methodology. Subjects of the present study were selected from all employees of the General Department of Youth and Sports in Alborz province (52 employees). Castiglione (2006) transformational leadership Standardized questionnaire was used to collect data in which Cronbach's alpha coefficient Obtained (0/98). Descriptive statistics and the KS test, UMann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis tests were used at the significant level α= 0/05 in order to analyze the data. The results showed the highest mean of variables related to the component of the charismatic characteristics (3/20 ±0/85) and the lowest one was belonged to the component of individual motivation (3/03 ± 0/86). Kruskal-Wallis test results also indicated that there was a significant relationship (sig=0/039) between the components of charismatic characteristics and the employment status of staff. The results of this study express that the most important factor in transformation-oriented Leadership is the charismatic characteristics of Leaders. Therefore, it is recommended that Leaders try to improve this effective component in transformation-oriented Leadership with creating the informal relationships, enhancing the communication with employees and attaching importance to the individual and organizational values accepted by the staff in order to make progress and effectiveness in the organization, consequently.
