Identifying national strategies that have an impact on the development of environmental culture in sports organizations

Subject Areas : Innovation in Sports Management

Seyed Farzad Mirhosseini ¹ (PhD student in Sports Management, Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran.)
Seyyed Mustafa Tayibi Thani ² (Stayar, Department of Sports Management, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran.)
حیدر لطفی ³ (3- ح دانشیار گروه جغرافیا، دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرمسار، گرمسار، ایران)
افسانه روحانی ⁴ (دکتری مدیریت ورزشی، دبیر آموزش و پرورش منطقه یک شهر تهران، تهران، ایران)

Received: 2023-07-07 Accepted : 2023-07-08 Published : 2023-06-22

Keywords: Factor analysis, sports event, environmental culture development, sports facilities, Environment,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of environmental culture development in sports organizations. The research method is descriptive-analytical and considered applied research. The Delphi method was used in the qualitative research to identify the factors affecting the development of environmental culture in organizations and to develop a questionnaire for the quantitative section. In the quantitative section, the results of the Delphi method were used to design a questionnaire to examine the level of development and implementation of environmental culture in the statistical population. The qualitative statistical population included all environmental culture specialists in organizational settings, where 20 people from 6 organizations were selected using snowball sampling. In the quantitative section, the statistical population consisted of employees of sports organizations, professors, and PhD and Master's students in sports management at the Islamic Azad University. Based on random sampling and the Kargar-Jessy and Morgan table, 297 people out of the statistical population (1300 people) were selected as the study sample. The research findings in the qualitative section identified 43 effective variables in the development of organizational environmental culture, which in exploratory factor analysis were classified into six main factors, explaining 65.34% of the total variance. The results also showed that all of these factors are effective in the development of environmental culture. Finally, suggestions were made for further development of these factors in the direction of environmental culture development.