Construction and Validation of a Tool in Measuring Chess Management in Iranian Sport Organizations

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch

2 College of Physical Education, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran

3 college of physical education and sport sciences, Karaj branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.

Abstract

Strategic thinking is a process that the top managers view the daily crises from a wide perspective and offer different solutions in order to solve organization problems. Chess is an intellectual sport that involves higher thinking ability and a chess player strategically moves his or her pieces on the chessboard. Chess management model not only modeling the game, it has also been an integrated part of all the management and leadership styles that have emerged in the world. The purpose of the present study was to construct and validate a tool to measure chess management for Iranian sport organizations. The study was conducted through a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods. First, by studying the theoretical background and consulting with the experts, the qualitative data were prepared and as the result the initial form of questionnaire was constructed. The initial data were analyzed in an exploratory factor analysis to determine the factors through using the principal component method in orthogonal rotation. In order to evaluate the psychometric indices, a sample of 120 participants from the population responded to the questionnaire. After quantitative and qualitative processes were conducted, a final chess management questionnaire with 36 items was constructed and in the final stage a sample of 334 participants from the population responded to the questionnaire. The results of exploratory and confirmatory showed that the constructed instrument has sufficient stability and validity to measure chess management processes in Iranian sport organizations.

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