Sara Keshkar; Hamid Ghasemi; Gholamali Karegar
Volume 3, Issue 4 , January 2017, , Pages 11-22
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to define sports culture and its components in Iran.The technique chosen to create this definition was qualitative, using the Delphi method. The research population included sport management experts and sociologists, athletes, sport managers, coaches, people who were ...
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The purpose of this research was to define sports culture and its components in Iran.The technique chosen to create this definition was qualitative, using the Delphi method. The research population included sport management experts and sociologists, athletes, sport managers, coaches, people who were familiar with the cultural atmosphere in sports, and active Protagonists in sports(N=111) who participated in the four rounds of the Delphi method selected and used in this research, with considerable decrease in numbers with each round.The results led to this definition for sports culture: “sports culture means a combination of expecting beliefs and assumptions in sports; behaving in ways in accord with favored social values and norms, including respectful behaviors, observing ethics, and the glorification of other nations’ cultures; creating sport participation habits through managing resources in order to make circumstances and equipment for sport activities more readily available to those who wish to participate in sports; and presenting the artistic and aesthetic aspects of sports as tangible cultural artifacts in society”.This definition was similar to famous cultural models and frames, with some exceptions in terms of emphasizing Islamic/Iranian values and the addition of concerns for resource management as an important component in the definition.
Gholamreza Shabanibahar; Mohsen Loghmani; Amin Ghavimi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , January 2015, , Pages 91-102
Abstract
Regarding to scholars neglects for studying another different models, this research was designed with aim of investigating the role of organizational culture dimensions on effectiveness in sports and youth offices of Hamadan. Numbers of 111 employees from eight sport and youth offices of Hamadan province ...
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Regarding to scholars neglects for studying another different models, this research was designed with aim of investigating the role of organizational culture dimensions on effectiveness in sports and youth offices of Hamadan. Numbers of 111 employees from eight sport and youth offices of Hamadan province selected by Morgan and Kerejci Table and responded to organizational effectiveness in sport and organizational culture questionnaires. Validity of questionnaires was confirmed by 12 sport management experts and their reliability calculated .97 and .90, respectively. In addition of exist of strong correlation between all components of organizational culture with the organizational effectiveness stepwise linear regression analysis results indicated that components of organizational continuity (β= .16, t= 2.13), strategic emphasis (β= .29, t= 4.29), success criteria (β= .42, t= 5.85) and distinctive characteristics (β= .14, t= 2.23) were the best predictors of organizational effectiveness. According to these findings, it seems that various departments of sports require organic models and we recommend to administrators, in addition to maintaining the balance of four models of organizational effectiveness in the sport organizations, making of organizational culture in generally and competitive values and emphasizing on the long-term goals in especially for designing structure of their organization.