Farideh Izadi Shahnani; Javad Shahlaei Bagheri; Habib Honari
Abstract
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.