Sociological analysis of the role of growth and development of club ownership in the field of field hockey. Case study: The Triumph of Entering the Olympic Games
Subject Areas : Sustainable development studies in sport
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology of Sport, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Club-ownership, Development, Field Hockey, Olympics,
Abstract :
Abstract Aim: This research was done with the purpose of explaining the role of growth and development of a club in the success of entering the Olympic Games in the field of field hockey. Method: This is interpretative research with an exploratory and applied nature, the approach that governs it is also inductive and comparative, and its implementation method is of a hybrid type. The first part in the qualitative phase included all senior managers and experts in the field of championship sports development and organizers of professional sports leagues. The number of interviewees in the quantitative phase was 15 people. Then, in the quantitative stage, after confirming the face validity and content of the questionnaire, it was given to 242 coaches, experts, managers of professional and semi-professional clubs. 70 of the participants in the questionnaire completion phase were women (29%) and 174 were men (71%). Findings: It was found that the growth and development component of club ownership has a normal distribution. The growth and development component explains a total of 17.886 percent of the total variance and includes 16 questions. In this component, the highest factor weight related to the 10th question with a weight of 1.642 of the standardized questionnaires for the measurement of turquoise Ness is assigned to itself. Also, the lowest factor weight belongs to question number 12 with a weight of 0.701. The factor loadings show that all of them are higher than 0.5 and it is a convergent validity indicator. The root means square index of the estimated error, which is indicated by the abbreviation RMSEA, is equal to 0.062 in this model. In addition, the dual indexes of GFI and AGFI along with NFI index are respectively equal to 0.93, 0.92 and 0.91, which indicate a very good fit. The t statistic calculated in all parts of the model shows that the obtained values with 241 degrees of freedom and alpha 0.05 are greater than the critical t value. Therefore, growth and development are effective on the success of club ownership. Conclusion: The existence of tools such as the approval of the law to support clubs in this case can help the hockey federation and clubs. Attention is paid to privatization to improve services, increase customer satisfaction, improve training of executive agents and bring more efficiency in the field of production. The presence of legal experts and the creation of organized conditions in the legal documents of the clubs are financial clarifications in order to promote them to professional clubs, management stability and the stability of coaches and technical staff, creating support packages and conditions with incentive aspects for them. Also, creating sufficient motivation empowers employees and, in general, improves the quality of human resources and resources. The formation of the specialized hockey academy and institute is also effective in this extraordinary productivity. There is a need for intervention and research with the approach of comparative studies in this field.
