The role of self-management skills in organizational inertia with the mediation of transformational leadership in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth

Subject Areas : Sports Management Studies

Mahdi Ebrahimbysalami ¹ , Saeid Sedaghati ² , Mohammad Hasan Ferdowsi ³ , vali nowzari ⁴

1 - PhD student in sport management, Department of Sport Management, Shoushtar branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.
2 - Assistant professor of sport management, Department of Sport Management, Islamshahr branch, Islamic Azad University,Islamshahr, Iran.
3 - Assistant professor of sport management, Department of Sport Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Assistant professor of sport management, Department, of Sport Management, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran.

Received: 2023-06-08 Accepted : 2023-10-15 Published : 2023-12-22

Keywords: Organizational inertia, Self-management skills, employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, Transformational Leadership,

Abstract :

Objective: The main goal of this research is to determine the role of self-management skills in organizational inertia with the mediation of transformative leadership in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. Methodology: The current research is considered as part of applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of strategy, it is a survey (localization). The statistical population of the current research consists of 830 managers and employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. The statistical sample of the research includes 265 managers and employees of the target community. The research tools include the transformational leadership style questionnaire of Bass and Olive (2000) with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.88, Manz's self-management skills questionnaire (2009) with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.82, and Goodkin and Alcorn's organizational inertia questionnaire (2008) with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.95. be In addition, in order to determine the normality of the normal distribution of the data, the skewness and kurtosis test, the homogeneity of variances using the Levine test, comparing the averages with the standard average using the one-sample t test, and determining the effect of the research variables on each other, structural equation modeling was used. Results: The results of the research showed that the average of self-management skills, transformational leadership and organizational inertia in the Ministry of Sports and Youth is higher than average. At the same time, self-management skills and transformative leadership have a significant effect on the organizational inertia of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. Conclusion: Also, self-management skills have a significant effect on organizational inertia with the mediating role of transformative leadership in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, and according to the indicators and outputs of the model, the said model has a good fit.Objective: The main goal of this research is to determine the role of self-management skills in organizational inertia with the mediation of transformative leadership in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. Methodology: The current research is considered as part of applied research in terms of its purpose, and in terms of strategy, it is a survey (localization). The statistical population of the current research consists of 830 managers and employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. The statistical sample of the research includes 265 managers and employees of the target community. The research tools include the transformational leadership style questionnaire of Bass and Olive (2000) with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.88, Manz's self-management skills questionnaire (2009) with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.82, and Goodkin and Alcorn's organizational inertia questionnaire (2008) with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.95. be In addition, in order to determine the normality of the normal distribution of the data, the skewness and kurtosis test, the homogeneity of variances using the Levine test, comparing the averages with the standard average using the one-sample t test, and determining the effect of the research variables on each other, structural equation modeling was used. Results: The results of the research showed that the average of self-management skills, transformational leadership and organizational inertia in the Ministry of Sports and Youth is higher than average. At the same time, self-management skills and transformative leadership have a significant effect on the organizational inertia of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. Conclusion: Also, self-management skills have a significant effect on organizational inertia with the mediating role of transformative leadership in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, and according to the indicators and outputs of the model, the said model has a good fit.