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The Relationship between Participative Management and Job Attitudes of Employees of National Olympics and Paralympics Academy of Iran

Bita Asadi Kenari (M.A), M. Karimi Alavijeh (M.A), Mehrzad Hamidi (Ph.D), S.N Sajjadi (Ph.D)

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between participative
management and job attitude of employees of NOPA in Iran. This research was a descriptive
study. The statistical population of this research included all the 60 employees of National
Olympics and Paralympics Academy (NOPA) chosen as the sample. In order to gather the data a
researcher-administered questionnaire with participative management ? =0.90,job satisfaction
?=0.88,organizational commitment ?= 0.84 and job involvement ?=0.81. Descriptive statistics
was used to describe the researches data and after confirmation the normality of its
distribution using the KS test, a parametric Pearson correlation test was used to determine the
relationship between the variables. Eventually, considering the finding of the research the
following results were shown: A significant relationship was found between participative
management and job satisfaction(p=0.001),participative management and affective
commitment(p = 0.016),participative management and organizational commitment(p =
0.031),participative management and normative commitment(p = 0.039) and also the findings
showed that there was no significant relationship between participative management and job
involvement(p = 0.118) and between continuous commitment and participative management
(p = 0.99).

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