Investigating the Quality of Talent Management System in Individual Sports of Ardabil Province

Fatemeh Rezapour¹ Mehrdad Moharramzadeh²

1) Ph.D Student of Sport Management, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran
2) Professor of Sport Management, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran (Corresponding Author)

IOI Code : XEAD-GCCHB
Publication : Third International Conference and Fifth National Conference on Innovations Sport Sciences(umasport2021.ir)
Abstract :
    In sport, it is very important to identify talented people at a young age, select and guide and support them until they reach the highest level of skill and championship. The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality of talent management system in individual sports in Ardabil province. The statistical population of the study consisted of officials and experts in the field of talent management, skilled coaches and professional athletes of selected individual sports delegations of Ardabil province (weightlifting, wrestling, Track and field, fencing, gymnastics and table tennis) numbering 142 people. The sample size was considered equal to the population size and 100 questionnaires, which is about %71 of the population, were collected. The research tool is a questionnaire of Roger et al. (2010) whose face and content validity was confirmed by 4 professors of sports management, 3 experts of sports teams, 3 coaches and 3 professional athletes in related sports. Convergent and divergent validity of the study was also confirmed. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured by combined reliability whose coefficient for all factors was more than 0.7. The hypotheses related to the relationships between research variables and model fit were tested by structural equation modeling and the hypotheses related to the quality status of research variables were tested by binomial test. Test findings of hypotheses related to the relationships of research variables, indicate the significance of the effect of objectives on the process (3.097), resources on the process (4.680), opportunities on the process (2.603), objectives on the results (2.602), Process on results (2.669), process on outcome (4.075), results on outcome (2.597) were in the talent management system. Of course, the effect of necessities on the process (1.371), resources on results (0.533), opportunities on results (1.594), necessities on results (0.207) was not significant. Testing the hypotheses related to the quality status of the research variables showed that the quality of the goals of the talent management system in wrestling is in good condition and in weightlifting, Track and field, fencing, gymnastics and table tennis. The quality of resources, opportunities, necessities, process, results and consequences of the talent management system in all selected sports in Ardabil province is not in a good condition. Therefore, it can be concluded that sports teams pay attention to all stages of talent management and their goals, resources, opportunities and necessities are of quality; They perform better in the processes and by improving the process, they achieve good results in championship sports. As the results improve, they also have high quality implications for talent management in the organization and community.

Keywords : ardabil championship sport individual sports quality talent management