Nasrin Haghshenas; Mohammad Hami; Vahid Shojaee; Mohammad Sanaei
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The talent identification program is to identify and develop talented athletes to reach the highest level of sport in the world. The study is to identify the factors affecting the development of talent in Iranian volleyball. This research was qualitative and exploratory in nature, which is considered ...
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The talent identification program is to identify and develop talented athletes to reach the highest level of sport in the world. The study is to identify the factors affecting the development of talent in Iranian volleyball. This research was qualitative and exploratory in nature, which is considered as an applied research. The population was all volleyball experts including the coaches of the national volleyball teams of Iran, senior managers and directors of the Talent Search Committee of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the Volleyball Federation, and the members of the faculty of sports management. The sampling method was purposive and snowballing, which was followed by 17 in-depth interviews. The responses were analyzed using the MAXQDA software version 18. From the analysis of the interviews, 15 factors were identified that they were national stars and heroes, training principles and design, education, inter-organizational communication in government institutions, human resource activities, motivational factors, intellectual and psychological factors, anthropometric characteristics, academies, volleyball federation, Higher education, legal factors, family support, value and attitude factors, facilities and equipment. Among these dimensions, the Volleyball Federation factor, academies, anthropometric characteristics, education and training principles and design played the most important role in talent development. In general, the results showed that various factors affect the development of talent management in volleyball in the country. So, it is suggested that research findings be at the forefront of talent search activities in volleyball-affiliated organizations, especially the country's volleyball federation and its affiliates. In addition, research results play a significant role in completing the theoretical foundations of sports management.
Mohammad Sanaie; Shima Sheikhvand
Volume 16, Issue 38 , March 2018, , Pages 101-112
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The study is to investigate the situation of sport tourism in the north of Tehran based on the SWOT technique from the experts' point of view. The statistical society is included all experts in the field of sports tourism in Tehran, Such as university professors, experts in physical education, tourism ...
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The study is to investigate the situation of sport tourism in the north of Tehran based on the SWOT technique from the experts' point of view. The statistical society is included all experts in the field of sports tourism in Tehran, Such as university professors, experts in physical education, tourism experts and urban managers. In this paper, personal estimate sampling method was used to determine the sample size, which 120 samples were selected. In this study, we use SWOT model to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and coming threats as well as rating factors in order to determine the appropriate strategy in the sport tourism and finally several strategies for tourism development in north of Tehran has been provided. Validity of questionnaire was confirmed by professors and experts. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated 0.86, which shows the high internal correlation of questionnaire.
The findings which were identified by experts show that existence natural and economic potentials in the north of Tehran is the greatest strength; Lack of professional personnel in related positions in order to develop the sports tourism, is the biggest weakness; Suitable natural and economic conditions and the position of Tehran as the capital of the country is the most important opportunity and lack of proper, comprehensive and integrated planning to promote sports tourism is the biggest threat in the field of sports tourism in north of Tehran.