Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 PHD in sports management at Urmia University
Abstract
Modern sports organizations seek to share information and knowledge management and ignoring self-censorship in these organizations can be problematic. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting human resource self-censorship and solutions to reduce it in governmental sports organizations. This research is of an applied, qualitative, and field-library type with a thematic analysis strategy using the Atride-Stirling (2001) approach. The participants in the present study were university professors of sports management and human resource management, heads of the general departments of sports and youth in provincial centers and heads of sports federations, 18 of whom were selected using a purposeful and snowball method and according to the principle of theoretical saturation. The data collection tool was a semi-structured in-depth interview and in order to analyze the data, three-stage coding of thematic analysis was used. The results of the study showed that the factors affecting self-censorship of human resources in sports organizations include individual factors, managerial factors, organizational factors and supra-organizational factors and the solutions to reduce it include improving human resource knowledge, promoting a spirit of collaboration, making managers pay attention to insecurities, providing incentives to human resources, combating flattery and correcting faulty organizational practices. Therefore, managers of sports organizations can, by considering the effective factors and applying the solutions provided, provide the necessary basis for reducing self-censorship of human resources in sports organizations, benefit from all the knowledge capacities of these valuable resources and promote their active and honest participation in sports organizations.
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