APPLIED RESEARCH OF SPORT MANAGEMENT
Year:2013 | Volume:2 | Issue:2 (6)|Papers Count:11

This study aims to examine the effective barrier factors on participation number of women teachers in three levels of education about sport activities of Marand in order to introduce suitable solutions. The study is descriptive correlational typical one and has been done as field. The population of research was 491 cases of woman teachers in three educational levels of Marand. Study statistical society was 215 persons. The standard barrier factors questionnaire used with validity is confirmed by experts and its reliability has been verified and personal information questionnaire as well. The data analysis has been done by the usage of average descriptive statistical and standard deviation and the hypothesis research test is used from Spearman correlation coefficient, K-V test and chi-squire. The results of research indicate that there is significant negative relationship between barrier factors and sports participation number of women teachers, but there is no significant relationship between two small barrier scale (personal, economics and financial) and sports participation. Also there is no significant relationship among women teachers of three educational levels (primary, guidance and high school) in participation number of sport activities. Finally there is no considerable relationship among participation numbers on sport activities and age, educational field and degree and also among sport history number, educational field and degree. Generally, we can conclude that increasing diverse barriers, participation in sports, decreases and sports teacher can prevent women from participating. Therefore the authority's attention to reduce the use of programs and policies systematically can provide Women's participation in physical activity and facilitate the development and growth of the community.

The purpose of this study was the influence of selected marketing mix elements on brand equity in sport service. Method research was descriptive - correlational. The statistical population consisted of the Mojhaye Abi center consumers. For sampling, we selected 262 persons. For gathering data, three main questionnaires utilized: Price, Service center image, Advertising and Promotional sales questionnaire (Yoo, Donthu & Lee, 2000) and Brand equity questionnaire (Henseler, Wilson & Westberg, 2011). The validity of questionnaires determined by experts and the reliability were (a=0.79) for price questionnaire, (a=0.73) for service center image questionnaire, (a=0.84) for advertising questionnaire, (a=0.78) for promotional sales questionnaire and (a=0.81) for brand equity questionnaire. The stepwise regression results indicated that promotional sales and service center image for selected marketing mix elements did influence on brand equity. Also, the results indicated that price and advertising did not influence on brand equity. According to our results, Sports service centers for brand equity creation have to focuse their marketing activities more on promoting and image center creation.

The aim of this study was comparison and Determination the reasons of purchasing foreign sport products from sport producers, Sellers and Consumers Viewpoints and then ranking the reasons. This research was an applied descriptive, comparative, survey data gathering and field study paper. The statistical population of this study was 16 sport producers, 46 sellers and 360 consumers. Data collection was done by a researcher made questionnaire that contains 52 items and demographic information. Researcher-made questionnaire was used as well, Its validity was confirmed by 15 sport management and marketing specialists and experts. The reliability of this questionnaire was estimated by ALPHA CRONBACH 0.70. Data analysis was done by MANN WHITNEY U test and FRIEDMAN test. Based on results there was significant difference between producers and consumers and sellers and consumers but there wasn't significant difference between producers and sellers in the effective factors to purchase foreign sport products. From consumers view point the standards, quality of foreign sport products and weakness informing about Iranian sport products are important priority. In other words, there are so much propaganda for foreign products against domestic ones. From producers view point the standards, more warranty and diversity of foreign sport products are important priority and at last from sellers view point the price of Iranian sport products, wrong culture to prefere foreign sport products and the standards of foreign sport products are important priority.

This study attempted to investigate job-motivating factors based on job satisfaction (Herzberg model) and sports federations. The method of this research was descriptive and field study. The population of the study was 22 personnel of sports federation that 136 of these members were selected randomly as the sample. The instruments used in this study are three kinds of questionnaires (personal information, healthy and motivated factors, and job satisfaction). The validity of the motivated factors, and job were 86% and 83%, respectively. It was shown that (H was indicated) an acceptable reliability. After data collection through descriptive method, Kolmograph-Smirnov test, T-independent and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were used to achieve the purpose of this research. Research findings indicate that in motivational factors domain, decision power and in healthy factors domain, interpersonal relationship had a high score, and also the analytical data showed that there was no significant difference among the various scales of job satisfaction as well as federation in relation to motivational and healthy factors with job satisfaction of federation. Finally, it was found that female personnel were alittle more satisfied than male personnel. However, there was no significant difference between motivational and healthy factors in males and females.

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship among Emotional qution, Job satisfaction and organizational commitment of physical education office staff of Tehran universities. The statistical papulation of the study were included 130 people (114 experts of government universities and 16 experts of non-government universities) samples.The instrument of the study was questionnaires made by Shiring et al (emotional qution), Porters and et al (job satisfaction), Meyer JP, Allen JN. (Organization Commitment).In this research the use of descriptive Method, also average, standard diviation and inference like pierson correlation and multiple regressions.There was significant correlation respectively between Emotional qution and Job satisfaction (r=0.3, P£01.0), Emotional qution and organizational commitment (r=0.35, P£0.01), Job satisfaction and organizational commitment (r=0.69, P£0.01). Also, there were multiple relationships between Emotional qution and Job satisfaction, Emotional qution and organizational commitment. (F=9.23, R2=0.19, P£0.001) and (F=8.05, R2=0.17, P£0.001).According to results of the study, it seems authority submission to worthy staff, improving team working, workshop to introducing emotional qution and suitable using in workplace, can be effective in improving organizational commitment in physical education offices of universities.

Volunteers in sport and recreational organizations are one of the main elements of sport services. The purpose of this study was investigation of volunteer’s management dimensions in sport for all. The method of this study was descriptive-comparative. The statistical populations were the managers of sport for all federation, experts of administration of physical education and faculty members (N=n=110) and sport associations. The researcher-made questionnaire consists of 151 questions and 8 dimensions (planning, recruiting, selecting, orientation, training, retention, recognition, evaluation) was used to collecting the data that its content and face validity was confirmed by faculty members. Cranbach’s Alpha coefficient was used to test the reliability of the questionnaire (a=0.90).The importance of variables was determined with five-point Likert scale. According to K-S test results, ANOVA was used to analyze comparison the view point of selected groups (p£0.05). Also Friedman test was used to prioritizing the viewpoints. Data showed that only the viewpoint of selected groups was different in recruiting dimension and also the view point of them in Prioritizing was significantly different. Volunteers’ orientioation has the first rank in view point of 3 groups. At the end, some guidelines were suggested to managers in sport organizations.

This survey amis to predict the attitudinal and behavioral outcomes among professional Iranian soccer coaches based on Job Characteristics Model (JCM) perspective. 122 coaches of super league and first class responded to 7-point Likert questionnaire of job characteristics (Jacko, 2004).Results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) showed that there are job characteristics of skill variety (0.66), feedback from job (0.63), autonomy (0.60), specialization (0.55), task identity (0.55), problem solving (0.47), task significant (0.47), and information processing (0.45), respectively among soccer coaches. Results of Path Analysis (PA) for prediction of attitudinal and behavioral outcomes showed that these outcomes mainly created in soccer coaches by criteria psychological states (especially meaningfulness of the work). Thus, it seems that creating motivational settings in soccer coaches on professional level needs to more stimulation of skill variety, feedback from job and autonomy, to show positive reactions to their variety job and profession aspects of attitudinal and behavioral.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the interaction and coordination between academic circumstance and sport executive sections of country sport based on analysis documents related to the coordination these two structure. This investigation is a retrospectively analysis of document studies. Of investigation is purposeful and available for documents and functional reported of sport organizations and academic and scientific structure, regulation and organization chart, interviews and archival materials on the topic of the relation between university and sport and collaboration between these two structures. The results are analyzed in three parts: the sight of experts in archive source, consistent with the laws, and organization chart and reporting the function of organizations in order to interaction and the report of 5-years issued by faculties of physical education about cooperation with other sport organizations. In addition, structural model for the interaction of these two environments was presented .The results showed the media pundit's view, teachers and administrators in sports science center compared with executive managers is more convergence. These findings were consistent with the objectives set out in the regulations unit, an organizational chart in front of the interaction with the environment have not been designed. The reported of the physical education department functions in relation to the collaboration with the department of sport shown to coaching classes, research project, seminars and conferences, workshops, educators and academics working in the two sectors internship -entrepreneurship and publishing as the most important areas of cooperation between the two environments have relatively high volume but probably not good their qualityis not good. Generally results indicate a lack of appropriate between academic circumstance and sport executive sections of country have many reasons structural and program. It seems with privatization of university and sport sections, codified legislation base on Cooperation between institutions, Joint research projects and seminars implementation and training field for more cooperation between the two institutions will be provided.

Background: One of the important factors in success of sport teams is the role of coach. An experienced coach can improve athletes' performance and the team's by his knowledge and experiences. The purpose of this study is determination of criteria for national volleyball coaches in the country.Method: In this descriptive-measurable study information related to selecting the criteria for the coaches were collected by questionnaires. Then the importance level of each criterion in selection of nation volleyball coaches of the country was examined by gathering the person's ideas. For this purpose 92 people including coaches, managers, elites and players as the respondents participated in the survey.Results: The results showed that there is no significant relation among groups of coaches, managers, elites and players in the field of technical, managerial, social and personality indexes in the selection of volleyball coaches of the country. Also, there is no significant relation in total respondents' opinions in selection of coaches’ indexes. Finally, according to the total respondents' opinions, in order of importance, technical, managerial, personality and social indexes are the most important criteria in selection of national volleyball coaches of the country.Conclusion: According to the respondents' views, managerial, technical, and social indexes are the most important criteria in selection of national volleyball coaches of the country.

Payam Noor University as one of the subsets of higher education system and the largest distance learning center in Iran in which more than a million students study, seeking for beneficiaries ‘satisfaction and achieving the highest degree of quality in presenting expert and educational services. This article studies the function and identification of features effective on quality improvement and guarantee of physical science field in Payam Noor University in order to present guarantee pattern of physical science teaching quality. In addition to studying the selected statistical sample viewpoint by Kerjsey and Morgan methods (500 students, 150 trainees and 66 members of the board), the researcher looking for identifying weak points and things need correction and improvement through in filed method after studying the situation of 8 factors effective on quality by 32 criteria and 181 markers and extracting relatively desirable result in order to decrease the distance between current qualitative conditions and desirable conditions assumed by the group. In the second phase, through Delphi method and experts' viewpoints of the field, the 8 factors effective on guarantee of distance learning quality identified from global studies and experiences, and quality guarantee systems, and designing applied-conceptual pattern of guaranteeing quality of physical science teaching compatible with distance learning system of Payam Noor University all through summing up the results from these two polling.