Why Do Sport Managers Have No Commitment to Strategic Planning?

Many researchers believe that commitment to strategic planning is one of the factors
influencing the implementation of strategies. The results of a study by Peymanfar (2011) on
the identification of barriers to implementation of Iran’s sports system strategies showed that
the most important barrier was that the managers did not have commitment to strategies. Due
to the importance of this issue in the formulation and implementation of strategic plans in
Iran sport system, this study explored the minds of Iran sport top managers by Q method to
understand why they did not have commitment to this planning. The results of this study
which were obtained using the correlation matrix and factor analysis, suggested that there
were 4 types of thinking and dominant mentality in managers’ lack of commitment to
strategic planning. In this study, the most predominant mentality was called mentality of
competency-oriented managers. Other models identified in this study were strategy- oriented,
vision-oriented, and environment-oriented.