Farideh Izadi Shahnani; Javad Shahlaei Bagheri; Habib Honari
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The study is to evaluate the factors affecting organizational innovation in the Ministry of Sports and Youth in the current situation and desirable situation. The research is of applied-development one in the descriptive category of researches. The statistical community consists of 58 senior managers ...
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The study is to evaluate the factors affecting organizational innovation in the Ministry of Sports and Youth in the current situation and desirable situation. The research is of applied-development one in the descriptive category of researches. The statistical community consists of 58 senior managers (managers of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, their deputies and provincial administrators of the Sports Youth Department) all of whom were selected as the whole sample. 50 people responded to the questionnaire and a sample of 50 people was considered. The research tool was Abbas Khamseh’s questionnaire (1392) about the innovation evaluation, which in total had a reliability coefficient of 0/99% with Cronbach’s alpha and its validity was confirmed by the judgment of 6 professors. The status of each of the factors was investigated by the use of dependent test. The result of the significant difference between the effective factors (organizational structure, organizational innovation management, organizational strategy and goals, education, organizational culture, employees, teamwork, rules, stakeholders, organizational capability and innovation system) on organizational innovation, based on the existing and desired status between senior managers of the Ministry of Sports and Youth shows a significant level of P=0/0001. Among the evaluated components, organizational culture and teamwork are in a lower position than other components.
Maryam Mokhtari Dinani; Vida Mansouri Boroujeni; Nahid Atghia; Abbas Nazarian Madavani
Volume 18, Issue 46 , March 2020, , Pages 63-78
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The research is to study the structural equation modeling knowledge management, innovation and organizational efficiency of staff in Iran's Ministry of Sports and Youth. The statistical population was consisted of all employees of Ministry of Sport and Youth (N=430) from whom 203 subjects were selected ...
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The research is to study the structural equation modeling knowledge management, innovation and organizational efficiency of staff in Iran's Ministry of Sports and Youth. The statistical population was consisted of all employees of Ministry of Sport and Youth (N=430) from whom 203 subjects were selected according to Krejcie and Morgan Table. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for modeling. The results showed that knowledge management has a direct impact upon organizational innovation and efficiency with path coefficient (pc) of 0.65 and 0.78, respectively. Application of knowledge, knowledge transfer, and acquisition of knowledge and recording of knowledge played the most important roles with impact factors of 0.79, 0.72, 041 and 0.32, respectively. Also, organizational innovation had a direct impact on organizational efficiency with path coefficient of 0.56. In addition to direct impact on organizational efficiency, knowledge management had an indirect impact through organizational innovation that was less effective than the direct impact. Based on the results, Knowledge Application and Knowledge Transfer must be promoted among the staff of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. So. it can increase the organizational innovation and effectiveness among the m.
