ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT IN SPORT STUDIES
Year:2019 | Volume:5 | Issue:4 (20)|Papers Count:10

Determination of the relationship between services quality and behavioral intentions with the mediator role of perceived value and trust the Iranian fans of Premier League is the aim of this study. The statistical population of this correlational research was the Iranian fans of Football League. Regarding the fact that the size of the research population was unlimited, random stratified sampling was used through which 944 participants were selected as sample. In relation to the research variables, the survey was conducted. The data were analyzed by structural equation modeling test. Analysis of the findings showed: 1) the services quality, perceived value and trust have a direct and positive effect on behavioral intentions; 2) the service quality has a direct and positive impact on perceived trust and value; 3) perceived value has a direct and positive effect on trust and 4) the effect of service quality on the behavioral intentions of fans was direct and positive due to the perceived value and trust. This study assists to understand the relative effect of service quality as well as perceived value, and trust on the behavioral needs of fans. In addition, this study relates the perception of previous scientific research to the mentioned variables.

The purpose of this study was to determine the evaluative indicators dedicated to managers' behavior for appropriate governance in sports federations. This research was carried out in quantitative & qualitative steps, C-OAR-SE Procedure used in order to design the questionnaire and identify indicators. In the first step, appropriate governance indicators were identified through review of literature as well as interview with 29 raters through which 114 indicators were identified. In the second step, 11 expert raters expressed their ideas about the content validity of the questionnaire with CVI & CVR and 9 indicators were removed in this step. The reliability of the questionnaire was confiremed by using Comunality test and then handed out among 305 raters and the stakeholders of 8 selected federations. SPSS and SMART-PLS(SEM) was used to analyze the data. According to the results of this study, extracted indicators were stood in eight dimentions: transparency and accountability, participation, rule-oriented, responsibility, fight against corruption, ethic principal, control and monitoring and effectiveness. They could pridicted 0. 773 percent of managers' behavior for appropriate governance. Results showed that Transparency and accountability dimensions were the most important one (β =4. 886) and ethic principal was the least important (β =2. 966) in explanation of appropriate governance concept in sport federations.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on human resource efficiency with respect to the mediator role of psychological empowerment in the Ministry of Sport and Youth. The statistical sample of this study consists of 308 senior executives and staff of the Ministry of Sport and Youth. This is an applied and descriptive survey study. For collecting data, the questionnaires such as Hersey & Goldsmith’ s (1980) human resource efficiency, Bass’ s (2003) transformational leadership, and Spreitzer’ s (1995) psychological empowerment were applied which the validity and reliability were confirmed. Structural equations model and Lisrel software were used to test the hypotheses. The results of this research indicate that the transformational leadership has a positive effect on psychological empowerment and workforce efficiency. Also, psychological empowerment has a positive effect on workforce efficiency and a partial mediator role in the relationship between transformational leadership and human resource productivity. Therefore, transformational leadership and psychological empowerment and their dimensions can be effective factors in improving the workforce efficiency.

The purpose of this study is to provide a model of behavioral biases of sports investors in Kermanshah province. The statistical population of this study included experts in sport management, economics and marketing specialists, private sector investors, club managers and sports boards. Sampling was done as a available sampling. The size of the population was unlimited, and 160 individuals formed the statistical sample of the research. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire designed by investors' behavioral biases. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by sports and economics experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0. 81 in a preliminary test. For analyzing the data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods including K_S, confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis using two SPSS. V. 22 and Smart PLS. V. 3 software were applied. Finally, the models were tested by structural equation modeling techniques to determine the impact and relevance of each factors. The findings of the research indicated that the data of this research are fitted with the structure of the research and theoretical basis of the research in the developed models. The prioritization of factors was based on the ability to explain the variable of behavioral biases of investors as follow: economic biases 0. 78, cognitive biases 0. 74, revelation biases of 0. 49, preferential bias 0. 48, emotional biases 0. 31. Prioritizing economic issues announced the high impact of economic benefits on decision-making and targeting of investors to enter the field of sports.

Aim of this descriptive-correlation study was developing structural modeling organizational Innovation based on Social Capital among youth and sport ministry staffs of Islamic republic of Iran. The population of all employees of the Ministry of Sport and Youth (N =890), that That according to Krejcie & Morgan table 396 were selected by random sampling method. Measurements tool in such study to gathering data were Organizational Innovation Jimenez and et al questionnaire (2008) and Social Capital Nahapiet and Ghoshal questionnaire (1998). Content validity of both questionnaires confirmed by 15 Sport Managment professors and reliability through Cronbach's alpha test In an early example of 30 number for Organizational Innovation and Social Capital respectively equal to α = 0/928 and α = 0/971 were reported. All data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling via Software SPSS23 and LISREL8. 5. Results of the present study indicated that structural model of Organizational Innovation based on Social Capital confirmed that all of the questions have a significant effect on the developing structural model (P< 0/01). Goodness of fit and Social Capital could lead to a significant effect on Organizational Innovation among youth and sport ministry staff (P< 0/01, T= 11/19, β = 0/64). It seams Social capital has a significant effect on Organizational Innovation activities in staffs youth and sport ministry. This may lead to create new ideas and genius activities in such ministry.

The purpose of present research is to study the effects of social responsibility and ethical organization atmosphere on the employees’ job engagement in sport and youth offices of Golestan province. It is descriptive-survey. The statistical population was 220 employees of the sport and youth offices of Golestan province which selected as the sample of the research. For collecting data, Lechuga (2012) social responsibility questionnaire; Arnaud et al (2002) ethical climate questionnaire and Skas (2006) employees’ job engagement questionnaire were used. The reliablity of the questionnaires was determined respectively 0. 89, 0. 81 and 0. 85. To analyze data and identify the effects of research variables, structural equation modeling with the PLS software were applied. The results indicated that commitment to employees has no significant effect on employees’ job engagement. The effect of commitment to society on employees’ job engagement was positive and significant. Also, the positive effect of commitment to customers on employees’ job engagement was confirmed. Finally, the research findings claimed that the ethical organization atmosphere has a positive and significant effect on employees’ job engagement. According to the research results, it can be concluded that developing social responsibility and creating a positive ethical atmosphere in sports and youth offices can increase employees’ job engagement.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of life quality 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-correlational. The statistical population of the study was the official staff of the National Olympic Committee, which returned 88 analytical questionnaires. The instruments applied in this research were Walton’ s standard questionnaire of life quality (1973), Dannaiefard’ s and et al, Organizational indifference (2006) and Donald Alfred’ s (2008) Organizational Plateau Questionnaire. Their reliability was 0. 87, 0. 93 and 0. 75 respectively. For formal and content validity, the experts’ point of views were used and for construct validity the confirmatory factor applied. To analyze the data and develop the model, Structural Equation Modeling with PLS Smart software were utilized. The findings represented that the overall quality of life has a negative and reverse effect on the two variables of occupation and organizational indifference. Also career plateau had a positive and direct effect on the organizational indifference. Considering the intermediary role of occupation between the two variables 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.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of quality of perceived service on the citizenship behavior of clients of sports clubs in Isfahan with the mediator role of customer commitment. The method of this study was correlational descriptive survey and in terms of purpose it was applied. The statistical population included all customers of sports clubs in Isfahan. A sample of 390 people was estimated based on Morgan's table. The instruments used in this study were the Perceptual Quality Measurement Questionnaire (SERVQUAL) by Parasouramon et al. (1988) and Grout Customer Citizenship Behavior Inventory (2005) and Bateson et al (2006) Customer Satisfaction Inventory to evaluate the variables of the research. The formal and content validity of each questionnaire was approved by15sports management professors in the field of organizational behavior. To analyze the research findings, correlation coefficient, bootstrap method and structural equations and SPSS and PLS were utilized. The results of commitment role of the sports clubs in Isfahan were confirmed as a mediator role.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between political intelligence and verbal intelligence with developmental leadership style of managers and employees of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The study way descriptive – correlative with applied implications. The statistical population consisted all employees and directors of the Ministry of Youth and Sport's (N =700), 60 number of managers for a total and 200 employees randomly selected by Morgan (n =260 ). In this study three standard questionnaires were used: verbal intelligence David A. . Kolb (2005), the political intelligence Ashraf & Zahid Lqbal (2010) and transformational leadership style of Bernard Bass (1985). Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed. To verify the data K-S test, Pearson correlation and linear regression were applied with the help of SPSS version 20. The results determined that the political intelligence and verbal intelligence research samples were located in desirable level. Between the political intelligence and transformational leadership style (r260 =0. 52, p =0. 01) with verbal intelligence and transformational leadership style existed a positive significant (r260 =0. 65, p =0. 01) relation. It is concluded that the verbal intelligence and political intelligence are good predictors for developmental leadership style. It is needed to provide ways to reinforce managers and employees in their verbal and political intelligence and make a trustful and effective reciprocal communication between managers and subordinates to improve developmental leadership style.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of social responsibility on organizational performance, with emphasis on the mediator role of reputation upon employees of sports and youth departments in the West of Iran. This research is descriptive-correlational based on the purpose of applied research. The statistical population of the study is 600 employees of sport and youth departments of west of Iran. The sampling was stratified one and Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size therefore 220 samples were selected. For data collection, three kinds of questionnaires were applied such as standard social responsibility, Patterson organizational performance and organization's reputation coefficient. Structural equation modeling with the aid of Lisrel software help to analyze the data. The results showed that social responsibility has a positive and direct effect on the knowledge with the standard coefficient of 2. 09. Also, the effect of social responsibility on the reputation was positive and has significant effect on the quality of the work with the coefficient of 0. 58 and the reputation of the performance has a positive and significant effect on the effect of 0. 20%. Finally, social responsibility has a positive effect on the performance with a mediator role with a coefficient of 0. 17 with indirect and meaningful effect. Therefore, the agencies are advised to push employees with a variety of programs to take responsibility and provide a ground for creating a reputation in the organization and thus increase organizational performance.