Islamic lifestyle with a focus on health

Islamic lifestyle with a focus on health

Presenting the Model of the Position of Women's Management System in Sports Associations Using the Foundation's Data Method

Authors
Nasrin Shakrifard 1
Seyed Hamid Sajjadi Hezaveh 2
Farideh Ashraf Ganjooei 1
1 Department of Sports Management, Central Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Sports Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).
Abstract
Purpose: In Iran, the situation of women has major challenges and 
there is a high tension between elites and rulers. In many cases, the 
motherly role of women is still emphasized in the society more than her 
entry into the public arena, and this is in fundamental contradiction with 
the position of the management system of women in various societies. 
Based on this, the aim of this research is to provide a model of the 
position of women's management system in sports associations.
Materials and methods: This research was conducted using the 
qualitative data method of the foundation. The statistical population 
includes sports experts and professors and high-ranking sports 
managers of the country, 16 of whom were purposefully interviewed as 
a statistical sample in a two-way collaborative dialogue. The selection 
of participants in qualitative research is done with the aim of obtaining 
the most information about the investigated phenomenon, and therefore 
sports experts and high-ranking professors and managers of sports in 
the country have the most information in this field. The end of sampling 
is theoretical saturation, and theoretical saturation is achieved when 
additional data does not help to complete and specify a theoretical 
category, and the samples then look similar. Data analysis was done in 
three stages of open, axial and core coding.
Findings: By analyzing 16 in-depth interviews and implementing these 
interviews, 125 meaningful concepts and propositions were extracted 
and then 141 corresponding concepts were extracted from these 125 
concepts. The overlapping and semantic proximity of many 
corresponding concepts has caused the researchers to use their 
theoretical sensitivity to introduce and explain these 141 concepts into 
27 sub-categories and finally 27 sub-categories with ten main 
categories.
Conclusion: These ten subcategories include; Identifying in 
managerial spaces, the ability to divide work, overcoming gendered 
spaces, effective control, program-oriented, networks and 
communication skills, fieldwork and leadership, gaining social support 
for women's management, management practice and organizational 
efficiency, which are further abstracted in the coding stage. Selective, 
a core category describing "the position of women's management 
system in sports associations in the conditions of overcoming gendered 
spaces and attracting social support for women's management in the 
context of the ability to divide work and organizational efficiency with 
the intervention of women's networks and communication skills based 
on strategies; field management and leadership, program-oriented and 
management practice, despite the consequences of identification in the 
management spaces and effective control in Iranian society, it is 
possible to realize" appeared, which can cover all other categories
Keywords
Women
Management
Sports Management
Female Managers
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