Sport Psychology Studies

Sport Psychology Studies

Designing and Developing an Inertial Management Model Based on Psychological Factors in Iran's Ministry of Sports and Youth

Document Type : Original research

Authors
Zavareh Ghavami 1
Vali Nowzari 2
Seyed Ehsan Amirhosseini 3
1 Department of Sports science, Yasuj branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasuj, Iran
2 Department of sport Science, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran
3 Department of sport Science, Yasuj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasuj, Iran
10.22089/spsyj.2023.14839.2400
Abstract
The purpose of the research: This research was conducted with the aim of developing a model of inertia management in the Ministry of Sports and Youth with an emphasis on psychological factors.
Materials and methods: The method of this research was a combination of qualitative and quantitative. The statistical population in the qualitative part was 15 people from the managers and experts of human resources in the Ministry of Sports and Youth and in the quantitative part, including all the managers and employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, it was 901 people, according to the table of Karjesi and Morgan, the number of 269 people using The cluster random sampling method was chosen. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire containing 33 inertial management indicators. Data were analyzed through structural equations and using SPSS22 and PLS3 software.
Findings: The results showed that 33 indicators in the form of 5 components have an effect on the inertia management of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the research model had a perfect fit. Also, based on the results, experience inertia, practical inertia, insight inertia, psychological inertia and learning inertia were the most important components affecting inertia management.
Conclusion: It can be said that by using psychologists who are experts in increasing the motivation of employees, motivational drivers to create change and the self-confidence of managers to create change helped the inertia management of the Ministry of Sports and Youth.
Keywords
organizational change
psychological
inertia management
Ministry of Sports and Youth
Subjects
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Sport Psychology Studies
Volume 12, Issue 45
Summer 2023
Pages 141-156

  • Receive Date 06 May 2023
  • Revise Date 08 October 2023
  • Accept Date 08 December 2023