Document Type : Research Paper
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Strategic management is one of the most important subjects of today management. According to rapid changes of today environment and the fact that organizational decisions are becoming more and more complex, the need for use of a thorough and comprehensive plan to deal with such concerns is more tangible of any time before. Present study aims at evaluating the contexts of strategic management in West Azarbaijan province offices of sport and youth.The samples of the study are 47 managers and their assistants of W.Azarbaijan youth and sport offices. The tool for collecting data is a standard questionnaire which is made by Vic Gilgeous (strategic concerns and capability impeders). The questionnaire validity is determined by some of management experts, and the reliability kronbach's α value is acceptable (α = 0.81). The method with which the study is done is descriptive and analytic. For data analyzing we use some parameters of descriptive and inferential statistics such as standard deviation, mean, frequency and some other like one sample t-test. The findings show that the degree of implementation of the culture, information and human resources contexts of strategic management in the offices of youth and sport of w.Azarbaijan, are not in an appropriate conditions (p < 0.05). We can conclude (according to the results of the study), that the culture, information and human resources contexts of strategic management in w.Azarbaijan offices of youth and sport, are significantly different with the society's; and these contexts need to be more improved and strengthened.
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