Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Tehran
2 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Sports Sciences Research Institute
3 M.Sc. of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran
Abstract
This study assessed entrepreneurial attitudes of women managers in sports clubs of Tehran province (22 regions). This research includes identifying and evaluating of attitude and prioritizes characteristics of entrepreneurship among women managers and provides them the solution. Study population included all sports club managers are women in Tehran in 1390, & according to Statistics Department of Sport ministry in Tehran province are the 550 clubs. The numbers of subjects was 116 persons & were randomly chosen. Data collection instrument in this study is the standard questionnaire. To measure five factors of personal characteristics are important in entrepreneurship deals. That include: risk, locus of control, seeking success, tolerance of ambiguity, creativity under three sub-domains (dreaming, clearness of thought and pragmatism) and some items related to the success around seeking a new operating name of the challenges were seeking. Statistical method used in this study included descriptive and inferential. The inferential statistics, single-sample t test, & Friedman test for testing the research hypotheses. The results of this study showed those women’s sports clubs in Tehran managers with entrepreneurial attitude are classified based on the priorities between these features had the highest internal locus of control and had the challenge of seeking the lowest rating. The significant difference between entrepreneurial attitude sports clubs managers and managers of public private sports clubs was seen too.
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