Mehrdad Nikzamir; Najaf Aghaei; Mohammad Hossein Ghorbani; Hamid Foroghipour
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The study purpose is to formulate operational marketing planning of the Handball Federation of Iran. This research is of an applied-developmental type, which was carried out by an analytical method in the strategic studies, and a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used for collection ...
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The study purpose is to formulate operational marketing planning of the Handball Federation of Iran. This research is of an applied-developmental type, which was carried out by an analytical method in the strategic studies, and a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used for collection and analysis, and the participants in this research were included in the composition of the strategic committee of the Handball Federation. There are 44 university experts, members of the Federation's Board of Directors, heads of committees, heads of provincial boards, executive directors and Handball sports elites in the form of a strategic council, who were selected by targeted sampling. In the quantitative part of this research, using the tool developed based on the balanced scorecard and the opinion of the expert group quantitative measures and goals were determined and implementation plans (actions) were developed. to realize the ten strategic goals of the Handball Federation, it is necessary to implement operational plans. In this regard, human capital experts should be hired first and the principles of marketing should be taught to them. Next, brand planning and marketing mix design and recognition of the needs, wishes and preferences of the beneficiaries of the Handball Federation should be taken into consideration. , it is essential to work with private sector investors by focusing on media and advertising, by hosting international events.. Reforming the pricing policies, creating a reward system to attract financial sponsors and planning for sports charities are other marketing operational plans in the Handball Federation.
Najaf Aghaei; Hesamoddin Bagheri; Alireza Elahi
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Introduction: The growth of the global phenomenon of esports has created new opportunities and constraints for citizen participation. However, these constraints limit widespread public participation. This study examines the barriers to citizen participation by analyzing three groups of constraints (intrapersonal, ...
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Introduction: The growth of the global phenomenon of esports has created new opportunities and constraints for citizen participation. However, these constraints limit widespread public participation. This study examines the barriers to citizen participation by analyzing three groups of constraints (intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural) based on Crawford’s model. The intrapersonal domain includes educational, psychological, and physiological constraints. These factors are related to the individual’s self-perception, emotional issues, and personal circumstances. Interpersonal constraints include social factors such as family support, virtual environments, team stress, and exposure to toxic behaviors. At last, structural constraints reflect broader issues such as economic, social, technological, and legal constraints.
Method: Data from 122 participants were collected using a questionnaire and improved using the Delphi method (three stages of improvement) and confirmed high validity. Internal consistency (Reliability) was confirmed with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.813. To analyze the findings, repeated measures analysis of variance was used to determine significant differences between subgroups, and post-hoc tests were used to determine the most influential constraint.
Results: Results showed that the most significant differences at the intrapersonal level were related to psychological and social factors, at the interpersonal level related to team dynamics and social attitudes, and at the structural level related to access to technology.
Conclusion: By identifying and prioritizing the most important constraints, this study provides a basis for creating more inclusive and supportive environments. Addressing these constraints can increase citizen participation and sustain the growth of the evolving esports ecosystem.
faramarz kiyanizadeh; shahram alam; zahra houzhabrnia; mohammadhasan ferdowsi; Najaf Aghaei
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This study is to design a revenue-generating model for sports delegations of Iran. The research method was qualitative studies with grounded theory approach. The data was collected using interviews and document review. After conducting 22 in-depth and semi-structured interviews with the statistical population ...
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This study is to design a revenue-generating model for sports delegations of Iran. The research method was qualitative studies with grounded theory approach. The data was collected using interviews and document review. After conducting 22 in-depth and semi-structured interviews with the statistical population of the research, the main categories were extracted after completing the coding process. The statistical population included the heads and members of the presidiums of federations and sports delegations, officials familiar with revenue generation in the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the National Olympic Committee; Experts and researchers in the field of financial resources and revenue generation and familiar with the activities of sports delegations and federations; the faculty members and university professors who did research in this area. Purposeful and snowball sampling continued until theoretical saturation. The results showed in three stages of open, axial and selective coding that causal condition included funding from the side activities of the board, funding from events, funding from places available, funding from registration, contextual condition included entry of legal partners, capital measures, financing of funds, provision of current funds, intervening factors included planning barriers, governance barriers, institutional barriers, hardware and software barriers, strategies included governance measures, effective action on attracting capital, playing the role of social responsibility, proposal, targeting revenue generation, strengthening the image, understanding the goals of partners, and the consequences are entitled increase funding channels, reduce costs and implement revenue-generating measures. By applying the identified factors and strategies, we can see the challenges of generating revenue for sports delegations, increasing revenue channels and increasing productivity.
MohammadAli Batavani; Hameid foroghipor; Majid Soleymani; Najaf Aghaei
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The impact of organizational culture on productivity ensures the survival of the organization in the current competitive era. Karate federation has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Therefore, the study is to explain the impact of the dimensions of organizational culture with the mediatory ...
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The impact of organizational culture on productivity ensures the survival of the organization in the current competitive era. Karate federation has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Therefore, the study is to explain the impact of the dimensions of organizational culture with the mediatory role of innovation in productivity of karate practitioners of Isfahan.
The participantes included of 341 voluntary Isfahanian karate-kas, which were selected using stratified sampling in a convenient manner that were divided into 4groups: Group1 (applying independent variable/conducting pre-test/post-test), Group2 (applying independent variable/conducting post-test), Group3 (conducting pre-test/post-test), Group4 (conducting post-test). Human resources productivity, innovation, Robbins questionnaire, Hersi and Goldsmith questionnaire, and Madsij questionnaire were used, respectively. After taking the pre-test, an 18-hour educational class of organizational culture was held for the samples in the Groups1 and2. So after six months, a post-test was taken again. Descriptive statistic indices, simple ANOVA test, and VAF test via the SPSS software were used to analyze the data. The significance level was set at P<0/05.
The results showed that organizational culture training was effective and the mean scores of organizational culture, innovation and productivity in the post-test increased significantly. The effect of mediating the variable of innovation and components of attention to detail, boldness, risk-taking and stability of culture-building on the productivity of part-time manpower was (VAF<0/8, P=0/000); While the whole effect of organizational culture with the mediating role of innovation on productivity depended on the components of individual creativity, team orientation, attention to individuals and consequentialism (VAF>0/8, P=0/000).
Paying attention to the type of components of organizational culture in creating general or partial effects on increasing productivity with the mediating role of innovation in elite karatekas of Isfahan province is important.
Mohammad Batavani; Hameid foroghipor; Mohammad Nikravan; Najaf Aghaei
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The recent structures of sport in any countries should be cohesive and comprehensive and the current goals and activities and their consistency should have logical scientific stability.The importance of the activities, goals, programming and the organizational structures must be explicit in the structures ...
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The recent structures of sport in any countries should be cohesive and comprehensive and the current goals and activities and their consistency should have logical scientific stability.The importance of the activities, goals, programming and the organizational structures must be explicit in the structures and plans of a sport organization. The purpose of this study is to formulate a developmental model of the structural factors of the championship sport of the Karate Federation and it is a combined exploratory mixed study which was done in two steps. The first phase (qualitative phase) was a qualitative study using grounded theory method. The data were collected through the snow ball method, deep and semi-structured interviews.Then, the data resulted from twenty interviews were encoded and analyzed through grounded theorymethod. The data were analyzed through open, axial and selective coding. The second phase of the study (quantitative phase) was done quantitatively using structural equation modeling method.For this purpose, 29 questions of the questionnaire were used based on the model of sport for all in Iran (derived from the qualitative phase of the study).From Karate Premier League 278 participants were selected based on Morgan table. The data were analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling through using LISREL software. The results show that the media, financial resources, rules and regulations play important roles in top organizational decisions. They also show their special roles in preparing a suitable structure in sport developments of Iranian Karate Premier sport.
hamid foroghipor; massoume ahadi nejad; Najaf Aghaei; reza saboonchi
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The study aimed to study the effect of diversity management on human resource productivity with emphasis on the mediating role of perception of social identity in sports and youth departments of Isfahan province. This research is a descriptive survey type of field branch. The statistical population of ...
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The study aimed to study the effect of diversity management on human resource productivity with emphasis on the mediating role of perception of social identity in sports and youth departments of Isfahan province. This research is a descriptive survey type of field branch. The statistical population of this study is the total staff and managers of sports and youth departments of Isfahan province, The statistical sample of this study was 280 employees and managers of sports and youth departments of Isfahan province who were selected by simple random sampling. Measurement tools including 25-item questionnaires of Fink al(2001), social identity questionnaire was used by Henry et al(1999). Reliability collected for managing diversity and social identity 0.91 and 0.89 , respectively, and job satisfaction, job conflict, retirement intention, recruitment of talented employees and organizational citizenship behavior(0.83, 0.87, 0.85, 0.92, 0.84)were collected. Descriptive statistics, graphs, mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation model and SPSS and Smart-PLS software were used for analysis . The results showed that diversity management had a positive component it had a negative impact. The mediating role of perception of social identity was confirmed. Since among the components of human resource productivity, the component of attracting talented employees has received the most impact from the variable of diversity management. Therefore, by focusing on diversity management programs, organizations seek to attract employees with the necessary capabilities and abilities and can increase people’s productivity ana performance and thus success. Follow the organization.
