Identify and Rank the Factors Affecting the Instability of the Management of Football Clubs in the Premier League with a Sociological Approach

Subject Areas : Sports Management Studies

aref najafi ¹ , Seyed Emad Hosseini ² , Saeed Amirnejad ³

1 - Department of Sports Management, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Shomal Amol Non-Profit University, Mazandaran, Iran.
2 - Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Physical Education, University of Art. Tehran. Iran.

Received: 2022-06-14 Accepted : 2023-01-14 Published : 2023-06-22

Keywords: Keywords: Management, uncertainty management, club,

Abstract :

AbstractObjective: The aim of this study was to identify and rank the factors affecting the instability of the management of football clubs in the Premier League. Methodology: The present study was a descriptive, applied survey. The statistical comprehensive of the study included 100 Premier League managers, board of directors, coaches, players, members of the federation, and finally 86 questionnaires were returned to the researcher. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, the validity of which was confirmed by sports management professors and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method (0.988). The relevant questionnaire consisted of 36 questions in four categories, the share of each question was nine questions. In order to analyze the research findings, two categories of descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used. In the first part, descriptive analysis of data was performed in the form of frequency distribution tables. In the second part, inferential statistical methods (mean of a population (t test) and Friedman test) were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses.Results: The results showed that the individual factors, the lack of expertise of managers and lack of experience, the functional factors, the lack of a comprehensive system for evaluating the performance of management and the non-sporting motives, the organizational factors, result-oriented and lack of meritocracy and finally, the environmental, political individuals football management and lack of independence of the exercise of the most important factors are the lack of stable management. Conclusion: Overall rating factors and organizational factors also showed that the average (3/31) and personal factors with the highest average (1/03) have the lowest impact on volatility management.Keywords: Management, uncertainty management, clubAbstractObjective: The aim of this study was to identify and rank the factors affecting the instability of the management of football clubs in the Premier League. Methodology: The present study was a descriptive, applied survey. The statistical comprehensive of the study included 100 Premier League managers, board of directors, coaches, players, members of the federation, and finally 86 questionnaires were returned to the researcher. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, the validity of which was confirmed by sports management professors and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method (0.988). The relevant questionnaire consisted of 36 questions in four categories, the share of each question was nine questions. In order to analyze the research findings, two categories of descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used. In the first part, descriptive analysis of data was performed in the form of frequency distribution tables. In the second part, inferential statistical methods (mean of a population (t test) and Friedman test) were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses.Results: The results showed that the individual factors, the lack of expertise of managers and lack of experience, the functional factors, the lack of a comprehensive system for evaluating the performance of management and the non-sporting motives, the organizational factors, result-oriented and lack of meritocracy and finally, the environmental, political individuals football management and lack of independence of the exercise of the most important factors are the lack of stable management. Conclusion: Overall rating factors and organizational factors also showed that the average (3/31) and personal factors with the highest average (1/03) have the lowest impact on volatility management.Keywords: Management, uncertainty management, club

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