In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Scientific Association of Sports Management of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Professor of Sport Management Payame Noor University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the structural resrtictive factors of employment and entrepreneurship in sports in private sports clubs. This research is applied in terms of purpose and the mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) was used. In qualitative part, in order to identify barriers,qualitative content analysis and open and axial coding techniques have been used as well as AHP technique in some parts of the research. The statistical community in the qualitative part includes 13 experts and physical education specialists. The number of members in the community was at least 75 large private club managers. In the first part of the quantitative phase, the fuzzy pair matrix compatibility computational method has been used for estimating reliability. In the second part of the quantitative phase, for reliability evaluation, three factors of factor load coefficients, Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability (CR) have been used. According to the results, the following items  were identified as the most important structural restrictive factors of employment and entrepreneurship in sports in private clubs: strategy system barriers (2.356), employee freedom of work (1.163), flexible structure (1.105), financial system (0.556), decision making (0.125), reward system (0.106) and assessment system (0.096).

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