Assessment of performance in the sports industry is an important issue which has attracted the attention of many researchers. One of the important human resources that have a prominent role in the success of sports organizations are coaches and especially club coaches that smallest decisions of them can affect the performance of the entire organization. The purpose of this study was to explore ...

National team coaches are tasked to increase athlete capacity for success – a key task of theirs is leading the athletes and team’s entourage. Few studies have detailed empirical accounts leadership at organisational-, team-, individual level. This qualitative case study institutional examined how three national coaches, who also role high-performance directors, organise lead their teams. Withi...

the aim of the present study was to compare the power resource ofcoaches and athletes' team cohesion from the viewpoints of male and femalecoaches and athletes in south khorasan province. the method of this studywas descriptive which was conducted as a field study. the statisticalpopulation consisted of all coaches (n=120) and athletes (n=800) in fourteam sports. based on morgan table, 92 ...

the aim of the present study was to compare the effect of coach change on team performance in iran football premier league and five major european leagues. the design of study was quantitative and the research method was causal comparative. the population of the research included all 340 teams present in iran football premier league and selected european leagues (uk premier league, spain la lig...

an investigation of coaches' leadership styles and their effects on athletes' behaviors and incentives can help improve coach-athlete relationship and adopt better decisions and planning. this study aimed at investigating the relationship between coaches’ leadership styles and group cohesion in first division futsal league of mazandaran province. the statistical population consisted o...

Coaches play a multifunctional key role in high-performance team sports. One of the coaches’ responsibilities, in some sports, is to use team timeouts effectively. The sport science literature has however only given limited attention to the use of timeouts – this is especially the case in handball. This is somewhat surprising since timeouts can be used as a strategic intervention in the dynamic...

As part of a larger project to examine variables perceived to influence performance in Olympic competition, this manuscript was designed to (a) report coaches’ perceptions of variables influencing Olympic athlete performance, (b) triangulate findings from surveys and interviews with Olympic athletes, and (c) examine coaches’ perceptions of variables influencing Olympic coaching effectiveness. S...

Do team managers and coaches make rational decisions? In the era of big data one would expect coaching decisions to always be rational with respect to the maximization of the expected points scored. In order to examine this hypothesis we use data from the National Football League for the past 7 seasons to analyze two specific discrete decisions/choices that coaches face several times during a g...

This investigation consisted of a job analysis of 6 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A strength and conditioning coaches (SCC). All the subjects in the study were primarily responsible for providing strength and conditioning services to their institution's football programs. The procedures used for the gathering of data consisted of 3 questionnaires and a semi-structured inte...

the aim of this study was to survey football talent identification problems. all coaches of the basic football teams of tehran asia vision league in adolescent and youth classes formed the statistical population of this study. 42 coaches were selected as the sample based on morgan table. because there was not a standard questionnaire for this scope, a questionnaire with 5-point likert scale was...