Document Type : Research Paper
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The current research aims to examine the Tehran municipality’s behavior and management with regard to public sports, based on good city governance’s indicators. Populations of the research were all of managers, employees, secretariats and consultants of Tehran city’s “Saraye Mahallat” (Neighborhoods House). Samples were 384 individuals selected based on Morgan Table (N=7000).Research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire abstracted from literature on good city governance; the questionnaire consisted of 61 items for evaluating 7 principles of good city governance. The validity of this instrument was confirmed by 8 elites, coming from urban planning, sociology and sports management’ fields. The constituency validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by confirmatory causal analysis and its reliability was confirmed by an introductory test with 30 subjects, using Cronbach Alpha (0.76), as well as a combined reliability method. Furthermore, descriptive and inferential statistics methods, including Mardia’s coefficient and t-test, and AMOS and SPSS were used for data analyzing.
The findings indicate that the average respondents’ answers with regard to items related to 7 principles of good city governance in public sports is unpleasant in all principles
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