Sport Management Studies

The Relationship of Social Abrasion on Job Well-Being of Football Association Staff with Mediating Role of Interpersonal Conflict

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Masomeh Bakhit 1
Shahram Nazary 2
Kamran Eidipour 3

1 M.Sc. of Sport Management, Razi University

2 Associate Professor of Sports Management, Farhangian University

3 Ph.D. Student of Sport Management, Razi University

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2018.3270.1647
Abstract
One of the organizational mistreatment in the area of organizational behavior is social abrasion due to the volume of referrals and engagement in sports organizations, can have many impacts. The purpose of this study was the effect of social abrasion on job well-being of football association staff with mediating role of interpersonal conflict. The methodology was descriptive survey. The population was all of football association staff comprising 145 in 1395. The sample was equal to population due to low size of population. In order to collect data three standard questionnaires was used, social abrasion by Duffy and colleagues (2002), staff conflict test by Dubrin (1985) and job well-being by Parker and Haiti (2011). Data analysis was performed with LISREL software. The results showed that, social abrasion has positive effects on interpersonal conflicts (0.57), interpersonal conflict and social abrasion have negative effect on job well-being (-0.48, -0.42) and interpersonal conflict has a mediating role (-0.27) in effect of social abrasion on job well-being. It is recommended that managers identify factors influencing the behavior of abrasion, and this behavior to identify and correct policies such as: To provide training and moral in the social abrasion, justice in making and implementing laws, strengthen the ethical climate of trust, according to personality traits and behavioral adopt to control this behavior and eliminate them.

Keywords

Positive Interpersonal Relations
Sense of Celebrity
Working Life
Organizational Conflict

Subjects

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 9, Issue 45
November and December 2018
Pages 115-132

  • Receive Date 02 November 2016
  • Revise Date 04 March 2017
  • Accept Date 30 April 2017

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