Nasrin Haghshenas; Mohammad Hami; Vahid Shojaee; Mohammad Sanaei
Abstract
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.
Hossein Ziari; Seyyed Mostafa Tayebi Sani; Mohammad Hami
Volume 15, Issue 33 , December 2017, , Pages 219-232
Abstract
Today, sport as an amazing social phenomenon is of important role in life style. It is a necessary of life and a part of culture and identity of nations in this era. It is a kind of organized an purposeful game in which all the movements are done for improving physical and mental power and skillfulness. ...
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Today, sport as an amazing social phenomenon is of important role in life style. It is a necessary of life and a part of culture and identity of nations in this era. It is a kind of organized an purposeful game in which all the movements are done for improving physical and mental power and skillfulness. So that is necessary to have a strategic plan. The purpose of this study is developing a strategic plan for championship of Semnan province combining SWOT and AHP methods. Descriptive-field research method has been used for this study and to determine the analytical hierarchy process, experts of Semnan championship sport were employed to study the books, related articles and meetings of the Steering Council in this area. The statistical population consisted of 73 managers and members of the board of directors and heads of sports, 43 of experts and heads of sport departments,42 coaches and referees working in the premier leagues of athletic fields , 63 sport champions of Semnan and 29 clear sighted experts. Totally, 152 people were selected based on Morgan chart. After the announcement of the calling, statistical population were asked to announce internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats) of championship Sport of Semnan province and after identifying and classification of the ideas, questionnaire of AHP method was designed. Validity (nominal, of content) of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was obtained due to the incompatibility rate of the questionnaire which was 0.89 by Cronbach's alpha. For descriptive data analysis, SPSS software and for hierarchical analysis, AHP Master Software were used. In the survey part 152 people were recruited. The results showed that the strengths are about the organized sport boards (0/321) and the weaknesses are about the young new working staff in sport organization (0/056).About the reason of weaknesses the lack of sufficient number of schools in province was obvious (0/509) and ignoring the basic sports and finding talents was less(0/079).About the opportunities the upper state was for the ideas of leader and governmental staffs (0/365) and the least was for lack of being small and big industries in the province(0/076).About threats increasing number of crime and addiction and divorce (0/312) were the major and lack of the least support of athletes (0/0624) was the minor reason.
