Sport Management Studies

Making and Validation of a Tool for Determining Core Competencies for Appointment of Administrative Manager of Sports and Youth

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Habib Honari 1
Amin Raji 2
Fahimeh Momenifar 3

1 Associate Professor of Sport Management, Allameh Tabataba'i University

2 Faculty of Physical Education, Payame Noor University

3 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Payame Noor University

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2017.2277.1469
Abstract
The aim of present study was to make and validate a tool for determining core competencies for appointment of Administrative Manager of Sports and Youth. Statistical population of this study was composed of all sport management professors in universities, chairman of the federations and also elected leaders and experts of the ministry of youth and sports (N=450). Due to the large population study class random sampling method was used (n=209). Measurement instrument was a questionnaire 57 item which contains included 4 general factors (meta-competencies, cognitive dimension, social dimension and functional dimension). In order to make sure about validity of this questionnaire, an expert’s panel composed of management professors was applied. For testing its reliability,30 questionnaires were completed and 0/94 Cronbach’s alpha was calculated which was an appropriate reliability coefficient for this study. Data analysis of this study was done by the method of descriptive and inferential statistics and factor analysis and in LISREL and SPSS software environments. All questions had a significant relationship with their agents in reliability structure, the amount of relationship and T-value, and they could be a good predictor for their agents. Indexes X2/df=106.987, RMSEA=0.078, NFI=0.94, NNFI=0.93, CFI=0.94, GFI=0.92 and AGFI=0.90 confirmed the goodness of model. Also, the results about the relations of factors with the meaning of competency showed that all factors could be a good predictor for concept of competency. Finally, internal and external validity of core competencies for appointment of operational sport managers in Iranian ministry of youth and sports model was accepted.

Keywords

Competency
Factor Analysis
Validity
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Sport Management Studies
Volume 9, Issue 43
August & Septe 2017
September and October 2017
Pages 141-160

  • Receive Date 07 April 2016
  • Revise Date 29 September 2016
  • Accept Date 22 October 2016

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