Mehran Ahadi; Morteza Motahari; Reza Behdari
Abstract
The study is to identify the strategies and consequences of the international development of table tennis in Iran. The study was postmodern based on paradigm and a qualitative and exploratory type which uses grounded theory strategy, and hidden content analyze, and was a fundamental research in terms ...
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The study is to identify the strategies and consequences of the international development of table tennis in Iran. The study was postmodern based on paradigm and a qualitative and exploratory type which uses grounded theory strategy, and hidden content analyze, and was a fundamental research in terms of purpose. The data collection method was in-depth and semi-structured interviews. The statistical population was the table tennis experts, including the coaches of the national table tennis teams of Iran, the senior managers of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the Table Tennis Federation, faculty members of the university that 16 of them were considered as sample group by snowball sampling method. After analyzing and shredding the meaningful units, finally 194 initial propositions with a total of 328 frequencies were ready for categorizing.
The results showed that the 10 main categories in the strategies section include communication strategies, human resource management, supervision, motivational strategies, economic, technical and specialized, managerial, cultural, strategic and international, as well as in the consequences section, the main categories including technical and specialized consequences, equipment development, motivational, international, health, economic, social and ideal were discovered and counted. According to the developed strategies, a tree diagram of the strategies and consequences of the international development of table tennis in Iran was designed. Considering international seats, interacting with the owner of the field, identifying and paying attention to talents, supporting athletes, strengthening infrastructure, national and social media attention to facilitates the process of legion and applying experts in the fields Executive and international implementation of international Iranian Ping-Pong.