Investigation of crisis management and organizational support perceptions of academicians in the field of sports sciences towards their institution

It is clear that in the information age we live in, academic institutions play a very important role in the development of society. Human resources are considered one of the most important elements of any organization, and human resources are a critical element for academic institutions to survive and continue their activities successfully. As in many fields, academics in the field of exercise science may encounter various administrative challenges. The most common of these are crisis management and organizational support concepts. Based on this idea, this study aims to clarify the perceptions of crisis management and organizational support of the organizations they belong to, based on the opinions of academics working in the field of sports sciences. The population of the research consists of 2315 academicians working in the field of sports sciences related to higher education at state universities in Turkey, and the sample consists of 329 academicians selected by random sampling method. To collect research data, personal information (age, gender, marital status, length of time working at the institution, academic title), a five-question form was created, and scales containing the dimension of crisis management and the dimension of perceived institutional support were used. Percent frequency tables were created by analyzing the data of the research in the SPSS 22.00 program. Data were analyzed using independent simple t tests and one-way variance tests (ANOVA). Pearson Correlation test was used to measure the relationship between crisis management and organizational support perception scales, and linear regression tests were used to determine the effects between the sub-dimensions of the scale. As a result, statistical differences were found between the crisis management scale and the gender, age, years of experience and seniority of the academicians working in the field of sports. However, it is seen that there is no significant difference in marital status variables and sub-dimensions of the crisis management scale. While there is a significant difference between the organizational support perception scale and gender and seniority level, there is no significant difference between age, marital status and years of seniority variables. In addition, as a result of the Pearson correlation analysis, it is seen that there is a positive and significant relationship between the crisis management scale and the perceived organizational support scale of the academicians participating in the study.