Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• mehdi shahpari ¹
• Ebrahim Alidoust Gahfarokhi ²
• Amin Dehghan Ghahfarokhi ³

¹ Ph.D candidate department of sport management, faculty of sports science and health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Associate professor, sport management department, faculty of sport science and health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³ Assistant professor, Sport Management, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The country's sports managers have reached the highest level of success either through stepwise growth or because of career leaps that they have gained experiences that will never be written. In this research, a special look was made at the tacit knowledge of senior sports managers of the country. Thirteen top sports managers of the country were interviewed in depth. The interview process was carried out deeply and purposefully and then in a snowball fashion. The philosophical orientation of the interpretive research was based on social structuralism and was done by the way of narrative analysis. Coding was done using MAXQDA version 20 software and the research’s reliability was obtained by using MAXQDA software and calculating the Kappa coefficient of 0.81. The results of the research showed that the success factors of the career path of sports managers in the country are the result of technical skills, personal skills, management science skills, political skills, cognitive skills, and spiritual skills.

Keywords

• Career path development"
• "success experience"
• "managers skills"
• "lived experience"
• "narrative analysis

Main Subjects

• Sport Management