Developing a Conceptual Model for the Development of Worker Sport in Iran

 The aim of this research was developing a Conceptual Model for the Development of Worker Sport in Iran.

 The research method was qualitative research with systematic exploratory approach. The statistical population consisted of two sections of human resources (managers, professors, educators, etc.) and information resources (books, articles, documents, media, etc.). The sample was selected based on theoretical saturation and was sampled in a theoretical way (18 people and 53 documents). The research tool was a library study and exploratory interviews. The validity of the tool was evaluated and verified based on the legal and scientific evidence of the sample, the opinion of the experts, and the agreement between the codebook editors. A multi-stage coding method was used to analyze the data using a systematic approach.

 The conceptual model consisted of six consecutive levels: context level (social supporters and environmental capacities), structure level (trustee institutions, strategic executive capability, and division of work between sectors and cross-sector), capability level (innovation and diversification, knowledge and technology system, Human Resource Management, Physical Resource Management and Financing in Worker Sport), Process Level (Sporting Events, Sport Needs Assessment, Sport Cultivation, General Sport Training and Sport Services to Workers), Performance Level (Sport Ability, Sport Achievement and Worker Sport Participation) and Outcome Level (Sustainable Development of Worker Sport).

 Based on the conceptual model It can be said that the system of development of workers' sports development in the country Driven by a chain of contextual, structural, functional, process, functional, and consequential factors and the outcome of the relationships between these factors determines the output of the system and the development level.