Sport Management Studies

Designing Interpretive Structural model for Succession in Sports and Youth Department

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

hanieh sabzevari yousef abad 1
Hassan Bahrololoum 1
seyed Reza Hosseini Nia 2

1 shahrood university of technology

2 department of physical education, physical education and sport science, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2022.10964.3439
Abstract
Abstract
The present study was conducted with the purpose of designing an interpretive structural model of Succession in sports and youth departments. The research method was exploratory mixed. In the qualitative part of the research, from the study of related research literature, semi-structured interviews with 8 experts in the field of sports human resources in sports and oriented content analysis 70 conceptual codes were extracted; then the codes were classified into 15 categories and 4 main themes (including organizational, individual, process and extra-organizational factors) and a questionnaire was developed. In the quantitative part, the researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among 17 managers and employees of the sport and youth departments and 15 complete questionnaires were collected and analyzed using interpretive structural modeling method. The results showed that the indicators of "task requirements and organizational incentives for succession" and "talent identification system and database of talented individuals in the organization" as important and influential factors on succession in sports organizations are the ones that have the greatest impact on other indicators, and the factors of "organizational justice", "performance evaluation system" and " Commitment and support of senior managers" had the most dependence. Succession plans should be designed to the needs of each organization and since designing and implementing a succession system in any organization is a complex and time-consuming task and requires constant attention and sufficient resources, so organizations should be to spend considerable resources and time on this important matter.

Keywords

Human resource management
Meritocracy
Sports and Youth Departments
Succession
talent identification

Subjects

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 15, Issue 80
September and October 2023
Pages 35-58

  • Receive Date 26 July 2021
  • Revise Date 24 November 2021
  • Accept Date 28 December 2021

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