Designing organizational effectiveness model of selected Iraq’s sporting federations based on competing values framework

Abstract

The aim of the present study was designing model of organizational effectiveness of selected Iraq’s sport federations based on competing values framework. Statistical society of present study included 221 subjects ranging from chairmen, expert staffs, national adolescent athletes, and national referees. 180 subjects (81.4 percent) answered standard questionnaire of Eydi et al (2011) with five Likert values scale. Content and face validity of this tool was confirmed by 12 academic professors and its reliability was validated by Cronbach’s alpha (r=0.97). LISREL software version 8.50 was used for path analyzing and modeling, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to confirm the model and relationships between factors. Results of Structural Equation Model (SEM) based on path analysis method showed that factors of expert human resources (0.88), organizational interaction (0.88), productivity (0.87), employees’ cohesion (0.84), planning (0.84), organizational stability (0.81), flexibility (0.78), and organizational resources (0.74) had the most effects on organizational effectiveness. On the other hand, findings of factor analysis showed that patterns of internal procedures (interaction and organizational stability) and rational goals (planning and productivity) were main patterns of competing values framework and determinants of organizational effectiveness of Iraq’s selected sport federations. Moreover, federations of football, track and field, weightlifting, and basketball had the highest mean of organizational effectiveness, respectively. Hence, Iraq sport federations mainly focused on organizational control, and internal attention as index of OE.