Selection Criteria for the Coaches of Iran National Basketball Team: A Model Based on Gender Perspectives

Abstract

 The purpose of this study was to identify the most important criteria to choose qualified coaches for the national Basketball team of Iran and prioritize them based on the perspective of four different groups of men and women including sport experts, managers, Basketball coaches and elite players. Method used in this research was descriptive and survey kind. Among the limited number of population with 214 subjects, 135persons were randomly selected due to the Morgan table. Two different questionnaires were distributed; first one for the assessment of demographic characteristics and the second one consisted of eight coaching criterion with 64 sub-factors that were asked over in form of a sentence. Finally and after collecting the questionnaires, 110 samples were qualified for further investigation. These data were analyzed with both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics including Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Friedman test for finding the priority of criteria and analysis of variance test (ANOVA), using SPSS software. According to descriptive findings collected from 110 people, the population consists of 50 male (mean 45.5%) and 60 female (mean 54.5%). The results also showed that among the eight main criteria, ‘personality and cognitive features of a coach' with mean rank of 6.35 is the most important factor (X2= 61.39, p<0.01). It was also noticeable that male and female participants in this study had similar standpoints on the first six priorities, and the significant difference was obvious only on the last two items, where the highlights of the model for choosing national basketball coaches stands based on gender differences of the subjects.