Study of the Relationship between Perceived Organization Political Behavior and Organizational Decision Making Styles of Sports Boards Directors- General of West Azarbaijan Province
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Present research was conducted to examine the relationship between perceived organizational politics and decision making styles of sports boards’ directors-general of West Azarbaijan Province. It is a correlational applied descriptive-survey study. Statistical population comprised of all directors-general of sports boards of West Azarbaijan Province approximately amounting to 152. Based on statistical population distribution, simple random sampling was employed and sample size of 102 was selected based on Morgan’s table. Research instrumentsconsisted of Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS) and Decision Making Styles Questionnaire and their validities were approved by thesis supervisor and other relevant experts and their reliabilities were calculated using SPSS and calculated Cronbach’s Alphas were respectively 0.76 and 0.70. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including mean, frequency and standard deviation. Also linear regression and Pearson’s Correlation test were used from inferential statistical field. Results from data analysis showed that decision making styles of directors-general of the studied sports boards may be predicted based on perceived organizational politics. In other words, organizational decision making is correlated with perceived organizational politics.
Authors and Affiliations
Babak Morad Zadeh| Holder of MA in Sports Management from Islamic Azad University, Sari Branch, Seyyed Ja’far Mousavi| Faculty Member of Mazandaran Science and Research University, Jamshid Sayyar Nezhad| Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Qaem Shahr Branch
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP6525
- DOI -
- Views 309
- Downloads 9
Biodiversity and Distribution of Predaceous ladybird(Coleoptera: Coccinelliae)
The present study was conducted in the Hamedan district (49°27' E and 34°35'N), Iran to assess biodiversity and distribution of ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on seven regionsduring May-Oct., 2011.Specimens...
The Impact of Formal Schema and Readability on Cloze Test for EFL Learners
This study investigates the effect of formal schema and readability on the performance of the EFL learners. To this end, to conduct the present study in Grade Three at high school, 75 students out of 120 students were ch...
Evaluation of E-commerce (Fiqh and law approach in Iran)
World Wide Web created very Opportunities and threats for human. One of these opportunities is E-commerce. It created several legal problems. This study attempts to survey the Ecommerce in Law and Fiqh of Iran. It used d...
Equity of Health Care Financing: An Application to Iran
This paper analyzes inequality in Iran's health system from a financing perspective. Through grouped data of household budget published by Iran Statistic Center (ISC) and Beta Lorenz curve introduced in Kakwani (1980), i...
Review of the Economic and Political Rights of Women Based on Islam's View
Women's personality and rights is among the issues that has been subjected to discussions and differences in religions, philosophies and various social and legal schools over the centuries and many conflicting opinions h...