Document Type : Research Paper

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Organizational effectiveness is core in most of organizational analysis and dependent variable in most organizational research. In recent years, this construct attract more attention in sport management research. The purpose of this study was to introducing Competing Value Framework and related questionnaire as a good model and instrument for evaluation organizational effectiveness in sport.  Population of study consists of all sporting federations in Iran and sample was stakeholders (board of directors, professional employees, national referees, athletes and coaches) of six selected federations of basketball, volleyball, handball, wrestling, weightlifting and tekvandow that selected according to a goal oriented and non-random method. All of the stakeholders select as a population (N=362) but only 258 Self-management OE questionnaire in sporting individuals participated in research (720/0 of sample). Federations according to survey of literature, semi-structured interview with board of directors (vice president, secretary and president of special committee) and exploratory factor analysis conducted and then 10 sport management scholars confirmed content validity.  62 questions in a four quadrant of human relations mod el, Internal process, rational-goal model, open systems model and eight sub factors of Flexibility(5qustion), Resources(10qustion), Planning(7qustion), Productivity(11qustion), organizational interaction (7qustion), Stability(7qustion), worked force cohesion(8qustion) and worked force expert (7qustion)was recognized. Also internal validity of questionnaire with use of Cronbakh alpha was (r= 0/084). Result of research showed that CVF as a theoretical framework is a good model for measuring organizational effectiveness in sporting federations and sporting organizations. Suggest that sport management scholars use this questionnaire for measurement of sporting organization effectiveness.

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