Designing and Determining Strategies for Development of Tehran Province Volleyball Board

The success of any sports organization requires strategic planning and providing the right strategies.The study is to analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threatens, determining the strategic position and formulating the strategiesfor Development of Tehran Province Volleyball Board.
The population consisted of the board of directors, the entire staff of the volleyball board, the heads of the committees and boards of the subsidiary cities, the coaches and experts, the members of the Strategic Council and elite sports and volleyball management in Tehran province that all of them (50 persons) have been selected as samples. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used in this research. In order to collect information in a field, in addition to holding meetings and interviewing members of the Strategic Council, the Swot Identification Questionnaire, open source questionnaire, strategic positioning form, and strategy form were used.
The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 17 professors in sport management and members of the Strategic Council and its reliability was higher than 0/8. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, one-sample t-test and Friedman test, internal and external factors evaluation matrix and strategic positioning matrix were used.
The findings showed that the volleyball board of Tehran province has 12 strength points, 12 weaknesses, 13 points of opportunity and 14 threat points. The presence of coaches and referees at the national and international levels as the most important strength, lack of financial resources and affiliation with the federation as the most important weaknesses, the high statistical community in the province as the most important opportunity and lack of supportive laws and weaknesses in attracting sponsors as the most important threats were known. According to the results of internal matrix (2/71) and external matrix (2/31), strategic position of volleyball board of Tehran province is located in competitive region (ST). Therefore, it is recommended to use its strengths, including the presence of coaches, referees and first level instructors, coaching classes and abundance of volunteers to maximize their use to overcome existing threats. An operational plan has been developed focusing on attracting sponsors, supplying equipment, the requirements of subsidiary boards and the production and distribution of volleyball training programs are among the most important strategies.