OPERATIONALIZATION OF THE COMPETING VALUE APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING SPORTS’ ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN THAILAND

Abstract

This study aimed to explore a relationship between the means and ends in developing sports’ organizational effectiveness in Thailand by using the Competing Value Approach (CVA) model. Organizaional samples were volleyball tennis Muaythai soccer and track & field association. Ten experts developed sixty statements of eight theoretical structures for preliminary scales in the organizational effectiveness questionnaire. Nine hundred ninety-six constituents having affiliated with five sports associations responded the questionnaires for determining the structures of the proposed measurement model. Statistics used to analyze was confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results were found that the relationships of the structural model between means was significantly positive relationship with ends (total effect = 0.92) with good fit (CFI = 0.949). Planning and availability of information which has high correlation (r = 0.97) have a significantly strongest positive relationship with means (lamda = 0.77). Skilled workforce has a significantly strongest positive relationship with ends (lamda = 0.69).
(Journal of Sports Science and Technology 2014;14(1): 113 -130 )
KEYWORDS: Organizational Effectiveness; Competing Value Approach; Non-profit Organization; Thailand