The Relationship between Power Bases of Sports Federations’ Presidentswith Employees’ Job stress and Intent to Stay

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between power bases of sports federations'presidents (PBSP-other) with employee's job stress and intent to stay (both from the viewpoint ofemployees). The population in this study consisted of the employees of sports federations including experts,chiefs and vise chiefs of federation committees, n=822 that were completed (POSP- other) questionnaire(with 51 questions in 9-point Likert scales) and employees’ job stress and intent to stay questionnaires (with4 questions for both , in 1-point Likert scales) respectively, after translation process and approved , withcommentary of experts, face and content validity of the questionnaire was performed and with Usingconfirmatory factor analysis, construct validity was confirmed. Reliability of each scale was tested:POSP_other Cronbach's alpha =5991 and employees job stress and intent to stay, α= 5920 and α= 5925. Pearsoncorrelation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to analyze all thehypotheses. The results indicated that employees believed that presidents of sports federations hadlegitimate, referent, expert, reward and coercive power bases, respectively, and a negative significantrelationship was found between PBSP-other with job stress (r= -59595) and a positive significant relationshipwas found between PBSP-other with intent to stay (r=59404). Hierarchical multiple regression analysesrevealed that, among power bases of sports federations; referent power base was a better predictor foremployees’ job stress and intent to stay.

کلیدواژه ها:

Power Bases ، Federations' Presidents ، Federations' Employees ، Employees’ job Stress ، Employees’ Intent to Stay