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Designing a spiritual leadership model to develop the Job enthusiasm of the employees of sport and Youth general Offices in Northwest of the country

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University,Ardabil, Iran

2 Department of Physical Education,Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University,Ardabil, Iran

3 Physical Education Department, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University,Ardabil, Iran. Professor of Sports Management, Mohaghegh Ardabili University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design a model of spiritual leadership to develop the job enthusiasm of the staff of the General Directorate of Sports and Youth in the northwest of the country. The statistical population of the study included 372 employees of all departments of sports and youth in the northwest of the country. According to Morgan's table, 180 people were selected as a statistical sample as a statistical sample.The research method was descriptive-correlation. Research measurement tools include; The Fry et al.'s (2005) Spiritual Leadership Questionnaire and the Salvanava and Shuffley (2001) Job Enthusiasm Questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by 4 sports management experts and the reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of spiritual leadership with 0.810 and job enthusiasm of 0.848, respectively. Structural equation modeling by SPSS22 and AMOS22 software was used to analyze the information collected in the inferential statistics section. The results of model fitting (GFI = 0.94, CFI = 0.91, NFI = 0.94) showed the appropriateness of the model. Also, the results of research path analysis showed that spiritual leadership and its dimensions have a positive and significant direct effect on the development of employees' job enthusiasm. As a result, to develop and increase the job enthusiasm of employees of all departments of sports and youth, managers should use the spiritual leadership style.

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Organizational Behavior Management in Sport Studies
Volume 7, Issue 3 - Serial Number 27
October 2020
Pages 11-20
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