The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction And Organizational Excellence In Sport Organizations

The main purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational excellence in physical education (P.E.) general offices of Iran's provinces. A survey that contains European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) criteria and Oldham & Huckman's (1975) job satisfaction questionnaire are applied to P.E. general offices of Iran's provinces (ten provinces selected by classified random manner). Validity of the questionnaires verified by the experts and their reliability also calculated in a pilot study (?=0.928 and ?=0.83 respectively for EFQM and job satisfaction questionnaires). 550 questionnaires distributed among the staff however, 337 questionnaires were returned and included in statistical analyze. The results showed significant relationship between job satisfaction and all EFQM excellence model criteria (p<0.05). About job satisfaction, there was no significant difference in between the ten selected organizations. However, a significant difference observed between selected provinces’ organizational excellence (p<0.05). The relationship between job satisfaction and organizational excellence shows that organizations (specially sport organizations) that are going to implementing organizational excellence model such as EFQM, should be aware of job satisfaction which has a supporting role for the successful implementation. Furthermore, it seems that similar employment rules were the reason for non-significant differences among the selected organizations' job satisfaction. On the other hand, it seems that numerous factors affecting EFQM criteria can induce significant differences in the organizational excellence scores of these organizations.