Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student of Islamic Azad University of Boroujerd

2 Associate Professor in Sport Management, Razi University

3 Professor of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Kurdistan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of quality of working life on career plateau and organizational indifference of the staff of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The method of this research is descriptive - correlation. The statistical population of the study was the official staff of the National Olympic Committee, which returned 88 analytical questionnaires. The tools used in this research were Walton standard quality of work quality questionnaire (1973), Dannyfard and et al, Organizational indifference (2006) and Donald Alfred (2008) Organizational Plateau Questionnaire. Their reliability was 0.87, and 0.75 respectively. For formal and content validity, experts were used and for construct validity the confirmatory factor used. for confirmatory factor analysis for construct validity. To analyze the data and fit the model, Structural Equation Modeling was used using PLS Smart software. The findings shows that the overall quality of life has a negative and reverse effect on the two variables of occupation and organizational indifference. career plateau also has a positive and direct effect on the organizational indifference. Considering the intermediary role of occupation between the two variables of quality of Life quality and organizational indifference, with regard to the significance of the paths, career plateau can be called a partial intermediate variable between two variables. Regarding the results, it is suggested that organizations improve the quality of work life by promoting the conditions for reducing organizational indifference, and career plateau of employees in the organization.

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