Examination of organizational communication and job performance of individuals working in the sports sector

The aim of this research is to examine the organizational communication and job performance of individuals working in the sports sector. In our research, the purposive sampling method, which is one of the non-probability sampling methods, was used. In this context, the universe of the research consists of individuals working in the sports sector. The sample of the research consists of a total of 104 participants, 47 of whom are female and 57 are male, working in the Ministry of Youth and Sports on a voluntary basis. In addition to personal information, the Organizational Communication Climate Scale developed by Eryılmaz Ballı and Tulunay Ateş (2021) was used to determine the organizational communication levels of the participants and the Job Performance Scale developed by Çalışan and Köroğlu (2022) was used to determine the job performances of the participants as a data collection tool. SPSS 25 package program was used to evaluate the data. Percentage and frequency methods were used to determine the distributions of the information about the socio-demographic characteristics of the individuals included in the research. The skewness and kurtosis values of the data were examined to determine whether they showed a normal distribution and it was determined that they did not show a normal distribution. Accordingly, the Mann Whitney U test was applied for bivariate data at a significance level of α = 0.05, and the Kruskal Wallis test was applied for more than two variables. The Spearman Correlation test was applied to measure the relationship between the sub-dimensions, and the internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) were calculated to determine the reliability of the scales. As a result, the organizational communication levels and job performances of individuals working in the sports sector differ according to socio-demographic characteristics. Keywords: Communication, Performance, Sports