ORDER IN THE CHAOS IN SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS
Authors Mehran Azarian
ORCID: 0000-0002-3907-4707
m.azarian32@yahoo.com
Sahand University of Technology
PO.BOX 51335/1996 New Sahand Town, Tabriz, Iran

Robab Yadollahzadeh
ORCID: 0000-0001-9220-223X
n_yadollahzade@yahoo.com
Sahand University of Technology
PO.BOX 51335/1996 New Sahand Town, Tabriz, Iran

Mehrdad Hefzollesan
ORCID: 0000-0002-6022-3930
hefzollesan@sut.ac.ir
Sahand University of Technology
PO.BOX 51335/1996 New Sahand Town, Tabriz, Iran

Mehrdad Moharramzadeh
ORCID: 0000-0001-7769-4344
mmoharramzadeh@yahoo.com
University of Urmia
PO.BOX 51335/1996 Urmia, Iran

Sohrab Ghalehgir
ORCID: 0000-0002-9739-6464
ghalehgir@sut.ac.ir
Sahand University of Technology
PO.BOX 51335/1996 New Sahand Town, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract Purpose: Nowadays, scientists consider the world as a combination of some systems that work in a self -organizing way and the result of such a way is unpredictable and accidential states. Compulsory Natural rules are affective in such circumstances. Also it is known that systems work in a circular form in which order ends in disorder and vice versa. The idea of world as something simple has already replaced by a complicated and contradictory world. The study aim is to survey chaordic organizations characters of sport organizations. Materials and methods : For this purpose we used a standard questionnaire with appropriate reliability and validity. The statistical population of the study are whole staff of sport and youth head-quarter of west Azarbaijan province that are 89 (sample number is equal to the population's). We used Kolmogrov- Smirnov test to study data normal distribution, and in respect of normal distribution of data to test hypothesis we used sample t test and also descriptive statistical methods like mean and standard deviation, through SPSS 18. Questionnaires were filled out by whole staff of sport and youth head-quarters of west Azarbaijan province. Results: Results of this study, which have got through a single-sample t-test, show that sport organizations have six characteristics of welcoming to innovation, coherence, uncertainty, non-linearity, unpredictability, and ugly structure. It’s just the grade of the characteristic of recruiting competent staffs that is low in sport organizations; in fact they don’t enjoy it. But, within assessing the main hypothesis of the research that was around the feature of chaos-order, it was resulted that sport organizations have characteristics of a chaos-order organization and they can be considered as a chaos-order organization. Conclusions: According to the results of this study and t-table we can deduce that sport organizations are chaordic organization.
Key words anarchy; edge; chaos; chaordic; organization; sport;
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