Designing an interpretive structural model of organizational strategies to reduce the anti-productive behaviors of the employees of sports boards

Subject Areas : Others

Zainab Badeli ¹ , , Asra Askari ² , Amin Rashid Lamir ³ , Zayalabedi, Falah ⁴ , Taher Behlekeh ⁵

1 - PhD Student in Strategic Management, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran
2 - Department of Physical Education, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Sports Management, Boroujerd University, Boroujerd, Iran
4 - Associate Professor of Sports Management, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran
5 - Assistant Professor of Sports Management, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

Received: 2023-05-11 Accepted : 2023-09-05 Published : 2024-02-20

Keywords: organizational support, organizational productivity, Sports organizations, facilities and infrastructures,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to design an interpretative structural model of strategies to reduce the anti-productive behaviors of the employees of sports boards.The current research is of mixed type (qualitative and quantitative). In the first stage, a qualitative research method was performed using thematic analysis, and in the second stage, a quantitative method based on interpretive structural modeling was performed. The statistical population in both qualitative and quantitative sections, due to the expert-centeredness of the interpretive structural modeling approach, formed experts, including prominent professors in the field of sports management specializing in the field of organizational behavior, as well as some managers of Golestan province sports boards who have doctoral education. Were, include; these people were purposefully selected for qualitative interviews in the research topic (16 interviews with 16 people and continued until theoretical saturation).The measurement tool in the qualitative part was a semi-structured interview and in the quantitative part, a questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the data were confirmed.Two methods of thematic analysis (Max QDI software) and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) (Excel software) were used to analyze the data. 7 main themes of strategies to reduce anti-productive behaviors of sports board employees have been identified. Planning, monitoring and evaluation and management are in the independent cluster, that is, it has a great influence on other factors, and other factors have little influence on it. Recruitment, organizational support, and job duties are in the dependent cluster, that is, they are affected by other factors and on other factors.