Sara Gholamy; Mahvash Noorbaksh; Parivash Nourbakhsh; Mahdi Kohandel
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship The purpose of this study was to design an organizational inertia model in the country's sports federations. The statistical population was all employees of sports federations (N = 1852) . In the qualitative part, purposive sampling method and ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship The purpose of this study was to design an organizational inertia model in the country's sports federations. The statistical population was all employees of sports federations (N = 1852) . In the qualitative part, purposive sampling method and snowball sampling technique were used and in the quantitative part, based on Morgan table, 350 people were selected as a sample by simple random sampling method. In order to study the objectives of the research, semi-structured interviews were used in the qualitative part and in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire of organizational inertia obtained from the qualitative part was used. In the opinion of sports management professors and experts to confirm the face validity and structural equations and reliability of the questionnaire was performed experimentally on 30 members of the research community and the calculation of Cronbach's alpha coefficient was confirmed. SPSS and Amos version 23 statistical packages were used to analyze the data. The results showed that organizational inertia in sports federations of the country consists of 7 dimensions, 18 components and 55 items and there is a significant difference between the observed and hypothetical means of organizational inertia (t = 11.99), dimensions of organizational inertia and There are components of organizational inertia other than the component of mental models (P <0.01). Finally, the findings showed that the obtained model of organizational inertia has a good fit..