Zahra Rezaee; Mehrzad Hamidi; Ebrahim Alidoust Gahfarokhi; Amin Dehghan Ghahfarokhi
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The purpose of this study designing model of social responsibility of the school sports federation. This study was practical with a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative). The sample in the qualitative section was including informed experts of school sport in the field of academic, executive, ...
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The purpose of this study designing model of social responsibility of the school sports federation. This study was practical with a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative). The sample in the qualitative section was including informed experts of school sport in the field of academic, executive, and sports. The sampling method was purposeful and due to its unpredictable approach, it proceeded to a point where we reached theoretical saturation. Therefore, 12 interviews were analyzed. In the quantitative section, the statistical society was included board members, experts, managers of students sports federations, Deputies of Physical Education and Health, Heads of offices, the staff and associations school sports and 219 people purposefully were selected as samples. We use MAXQDA software in the qualitative section for analyzing data. Also, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used in the quantitative section for confirming hypotheses that were obtained in the qualitative section. Results show that the qualitative sample create 36 initial codes, 4 Factor(economic, humanitarian, legal, and moral), and 1 axial code( Social responsibility of the Student Sports federation) that they have 422 overall frequency in the context of interviews. Also, hypothesizes that were obtained in the qualitative part were confirmed in the quantitative section. The results of this study will use for policy-making and strategic planning to develop social responsibility among federation staff, stakeholders, teachers, and sports associations, and boards in student sports.
Ghasem Mehrabi; Seyed Nasrollah Sajjadi; Majid Jalali Farahani
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The purpose of this study was to determine the evaluative indicators dedicated to managers' behavior for appropriate governance in sports federations. This research was carried out in quantitative & qualitative steps, C-OAR-SE Procedure used in order to design the questionnaire and identify ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the evaluative indicators dedicated to managers' behavior for appropriate governance in sports federations. This research was carried out in quantitative & qualitative steps, C-OAR-SE Procedure used in order to design the questionnaire and identify indicators. In the first step, appropriate governance indicators were identified through review of literature as well as interview with 29 raters through which 114 indicators were identified. In the second step, 11 expert raters expressed their ideas about the content validity of the questionnaire with CVI & CVR and 9 indicators were removed in this step. The reliability of the questionnaire was confiremed by using Comunality test and then handed out among 305 raters and the stakeholders of 8 selected federations. SPSS and SMART-PLS(SEM) was used to analyze the data. According to the results of this study, extracted indicators were stood in eight dimentions: transparency and accountability, participation, rule-oriented, responsibility, fight against corruption, ethic principal, control and monitoring and effectiveness. They could pridicted 0.773 percent of managers' behavior for appropriate governance. Results showed that Transparency and accountability dimensions were the most important one (β=4.886) and ethic principal was the least important (β=2.966) in explanation of appropriate governance concept in sport federations.
Kamran Eydipour; Ali Ashrafkhazei; Elham Aryan; Sajjad Gholami torkslooye
Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2015, , Pages 57-64
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The purpose of this study, an analysis of the main challenges and obstacles to the development of football in the West of the country. Research methods, descriptive – survey. The population of the research includes all specialists, soccer, soccer board of directors, coaches, and athletes of professional ...
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The purpose of this study, an analysis of the main challenges and obstacles to the development of football in the West of the country. Research methods, descriptive – survey. The population of the research includes all specialists, soccer, soccer board of directors, coaches, and athletes of professional football Five provinces in the West Country (Lorestan, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Kurdistan, Ilam) to the number is 230, Sample survey, based on 145 patients and randomly Morgan - cluster is determined. Data in this study, a five-item Likert scale questionnaire with 40 questions. Internal reliability by Cranach’s alpha coefficient 89/0 was determined. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (tables, mean ...) and inferential statistics (K-S, and Friedman) is used. The results showed that, in general, there are twelve fundamental challenges in the development of football in this area are: Lack of long-term planning and the ravages of capitalism professional club, poor management and poor marketing is one of the most important challenges. The barriers identified in this study, it is suggested Policy officials and the sport of football officials and related organizations across the province by implementing strategies according to the scheduled program, in the development of football in the West Country and accordingly take steps to improve the country's football.
Mehdi Goudarzi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , January 2015, , Pages 111-123
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The purpose of this study was codification of strategic plan for Islamic Republic of Iran Triathlon federation by SPP model. Document analysis, relevant literature review, surveys, PEST SCAN (α = 0.86), SWOT analysis and meetings were used to collect the data. 22 people include president, ex and ...
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The purpose of this study was codification of strategic plan for Islamic Republic of Iran Triathlon federation by SPP model. Document analysis, relevant literature review, surveys, PEST SCAN (α = 0.86), SWOT analysis and meetings were used to collect the data. 22 people include president, ex and current vice presidents and previous members of the Board of Directors ex and current members of the Board of Directors ex and current Secretaries and Heads of delegations Provincial of the federation were selected and surveyed. By Delphi method, meetings and several strategic analyzing steps, 11 strengths, 10 weaknesses, 8 opportunities and 13 threats were recognized and ranked by Friedman test. According to the SPP model, Mission, vision, key areas of performance, objectives and strategies of Federation was codification.