The impact of politics on the modernization of Olympic sports; The mediating role of the change management process
Document Type : policymaking
Authors
1 Member of the affiliated academic staff of the sports management department, Islamshahr branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor of Sports Management Department, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
Abstract
When organizations fail to reach their full potential, this is not due to a weak strategy, but to poor implementation of modernization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of policy-making on modernization with the mediating role of change management process of Olympic sports. The research method was correlation with structural equation approach. The statistical population includes members of strategic council, senior staff managers, middle staff managers of the ministry of sports and youth, presidents of federations and sports delegations of olympic sports. According to Morgan's table, 297 people formed a statistical sample by stratified random method. The modernization and policy-making questionnaires olympic sports of Babaei et al. (2020) and process of change management Naidu (2008) research measurement variables were used. To examine the content validity of questionnaires from perspective of sports management professors and To examine combined reliability, cronbach's alpha, divergent and convergent validity, Sobel and Vaf test and structural equation modeling, SPSS software version 23 and PLS version 2 were used.The results showed that policy-making has an effect on modernization with the mediating role of the change management process of Olympic sports. The development of modernism in management that leads to the growth and development of Olympic sports in the domestic and international arenas based on economic factors, turnover, communication, organizational, organizational orientation, specialized manpower, Infrastructure, international relations and sports perspective governing the country's sports.
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