ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT DEPARTMENTS
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the organizational culture of physical education and sport departments in Turkey. To reach this purpose and make some advices, academic personnels which work in physical education and sport departments, decisions about their institutions organizational culture was taken by using cultural values.
This study was consisted of all physical education and sport departments and their academic personnels in Turkey (total 49 institutions). 14 out of 49 institutions and their academic personnels were selected as a sample by using random selection method. Total 354 academic personnels were participated in this study. A questionnaire which was 2 sections and 33 sentences was applied to all participators. 255 of them (72.033 %) answered the questionnaire and 242 out of 255 (68.361%) were evaluated.
SPSS 9.0 pocket computer program was used for statistical analysis by following these steps: for determining
the personality informations frequency (f) and percentage (%), importance of cultural values mean and standart
deviation, significant difference between variables one way variance analysis (ANOVA) and variable which was
created the difference if there was a significant difference Scheffe Tests were used.
As a result of this study: academic personnels accepted the cultural values not much important, so that these institutions don’t have strong organizational culture, academic personnels accepted that innovation is a too important value, physical education and sport departments which have a meaningful history (≤11 years) indicated that some positive difference than other institutions (≥5 years and 6-10 years), academic personnels which work in same institution for a long time (≤11 years) were indicated positive significant difference than more less time worker (≥5 years and 6-10 years), academic personnels which have higher status were indicated that positive significant difference about accepting the cultural values than the lower status ones.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Sports Medicine
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
April 4, 2002
Submission Date
January 4, 2002
Acceptance Date
March 4, 2002
Published in Issue
Year 2002 Volume: 7 Number: 2