Maryam Monazami; Seyyed Nasrollah Sadjadi; Hossein Rajabi; Majid Jalali Farahani
Volume 16, Issue 35 , June 2017, , Pages 155-178
Abstract
The study is to model effective factors on women's managerial development in sport, Iran. The research population consisted of 506 commissioners, including 253 managers and 253 experts of sport management of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this study, all members of the community ...
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The study is to model effective factors on women's managerial development in sport, Iran. The research population consisted of 506 commissioners, including 253 managers and 253 experts of sport management of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this study, all members of the community were selected as sample. From 506 persons in the target population, 407 persons (183 managers and 223 experts) completed the considered questionnaires for the research. Therefore, they were selected as sample. The research method was descriptive, survey type that its data was collected using questionnaires and field studies. Data collection tools for the present research included Demetrius Questionnaire (2006) on examining the attitude to employ women in sport and the researcher-made questionnaire to determine factors affecting advancement of women in managerial positions in sport, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The content validity and construct validity were used to validate both questionnaires; while their reliability was measured using the Cronbach's Alpha. The research findings showed that organizational, cultural, professional, family and personality factors affect managerial development of women in sport and the model of factors affecting managerial development of women in sport has a proper goodness of fit. Other results of the research showed a desirable attitude of sport management experts of the country toward employing women in sport fields of Iran.
