Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PHD in sports management at Urmia University

2 عضو هیات علمی گروه مدیریت ورزشی و رئیس پردیس دانشگاه ارومیه

3 Assistant Professor / Urmia University

Abstract

The purpose of the current research was to design a model for employing international human resources in Iran’s sports. The research method was qualitative and based on grounded theory with the Strauss and Corbin approach. The statistical population of the research was made up of representatives of the Islamic Council, senior public and private sports managers of the country, presidents of sports federations and clubs, senior managers of Spanish sports clubs, academic professors of sports management and international elite athletes of the country. The sampling was done with the snowball method and the research constructs reached data saturation after interviewing 23 experts. In order to collect data, in-depth semi-structured interviews were used, and in order to check the validity and reliability of the research tool, the validity, transferability, reliability, verification and review of the content were used in two stages, and the data were also collected using open three-stage coding. and selectively analyzed. The research results showed the consequences of the design of the model of employing international human resource in Iran’s sports include expertise, interaction and financial factors as causal factors; sanitization, cultural factors, geographical and knowledge factors as contextual factors; political issues, management issues, economic problems and cultural-religious issues as intervening factors; management strategies, individual, institutional, financial and legal characteristics as strategy and organizational development, managerial development, socio-cultural development and economic development. The model designed in this research can play an important role in improving the situation of employing international human resources in Iranian sports context.

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