چکیده:
Competency of managers plays a critical role in the success of the organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate the competency of managers of Sports and Youth Offices in Alborz, Iran. 134 managers and staff of Sport and youth offices completed the researcher-developed questionnaire. Two questionnaires with 50 questions were used to get the research data, one questionnaire completed by managers and the other completed by staff. For validity, the questionnaires content were approved by 10 sports management experts, and their reliability were confirmed by Cronbachs alpha, respectively, 0.83 for the managers questionnaire and 0.90 for the staff questionnaire. Friedman, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, and t-test were conducted to test the research hypotheses. Result of the study shows that there is a significant difference between managers and Staff concerning communication skills, decision-making, encouragement, business communication, leadership, team development, and deployment of positive feature of the managers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
134 managers and staff of Sport and youth offices completed the researcher-developed questionnaire.
Result of the study shows that there is a significant difference between managers and Staff concerning communication skills, decision-making, encouragement, business communication, leadership, team development, and deployment of positive feature of the managers.
Researchers have also found that competencies expected from the sport managers comprise strong communicative and social aspects with an emphasis on the importance of interpersonal communication, public relations, advertising and techniques of personal management (Horch and Schutte, 2003).
The most important competencies required for upper-level sport administrators include: communication and public relations, sport programming, management skills, business practices, risk management, computer skills, equipment management, evaluation, and research (Barcelona, 2010).
The staff of the Sports and Youth Department of Alborz Province believe that meritocracy system is not implemented in the organization and managers are not qualified.
The results of this research showed that there was a significant difference between managers and Staff in all dimensions of managers' competence including communication skills, decision-making skills, encouraging skills, work communication skills, professional skills, applying positive capabilities, and development of team activities.
Our results showed that factors such as communication skills, decision-making skills, encouraging skills, work communication skills, professional skills, applying positive capabilities, and development of team activities play an important role in the competence of managers, which are in line with the results of Jamieson (1980), Lamberchet (1987), Barcelona (2010), Peng (2000), Eksteen et al.