Survey the Effect of Willingness to Share Knowledge of Staff on the Effective Strategic Areas of Team Sports Federations

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to survey the effect of the role of willingness to share knowledge of the staff on the effective strategic areas of team sports federations. The method of the present study was descriptive and survey type which is applied based on the purpose. The statistical population of the study includes the employees of the national team sports federations (N = 350) and 183 people were selected as a statistical sample using the Morgan table and random sampling method. The collection tool of this research is based on the strategic areas questionnaires of Moghimi Organization (2015) and Taylor and Todd's (1995) Tendency to Share Knowledge Questionnaire. The reliability coefficient of both questionnaires was above 0.7, which indicates the acceptable reliability of the questionnaires used. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics indicators such as frequency distribution and inferential statistics and structural equation modeling with the partial least squares (PLS) approach. The results showed that the tendency to share employees' knowledge affects the strategic areas of team sports federations. The tendency of employees to share knowledge has a significant effect on culture with a path coefficient of 0.289, on infrastructure with a path coefficient of 0.370, on capability with a path coefficient of 0.457, on resources with a path coefficient of 0.459, on information with a path coefficient of 0.710. The findings also indicate that the value of GOF in this study is equal to 0.257, which indicates that the research model has a higher than average fit. According to the results, managers need to provide conditions in sports federations so that knowledge sharing is well developed among employees.

Keywords

• knowledge sharing
• strategic areas
• team sports federations
• tendency to knowledge sharing