Examining the effect of management support provided to sports business employees on organizational culture

In this study, it is aimed to examine the effect of management support provided to sport business employees on organizational culture. In our study, relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The population of the study consists of a total of 225 sports business employees (88 women and 137 men) from sports businesses in Istanbul. The sample is based on non-probability (judgmental) "convenience sampling method". Within the scope of the research, Personal Information Form, Perceived Manager Support Scale" and "Organizational Culture Scale" were used as data collection tools. The scales were transferred to the online environment and the employees of the sports organizations were enabled to answer the questions digitally. IBM SPSS IBM SPSS 24.0 program was used to analyze the data obtained. In the research; distribution analysis, descriptive analysis, independent sample T test and ONE-WAY ANOVA analysis from parametric hypothesis tests, Post-hoc (LSD) analysis was used to determine the difference between groups. In the statistical analysis and interpretations of the data, the significance level was taken as 0.05. In the study, when the total scores of the employees of sport enterprises from the Perceived Manager Support Scale were examined; significant differences were found according to the variables of gender, educational status, working time in the organization, average monthly income, the organization they work for and their title in the organization they work for. No statistically significant difference was found according to the age variable of the employees of sports enterprises. When the total scores they received from the organizational culture scale and its sub-dimensions were examined; significant differences were found according to the variables of age, education level, working time in the organization, average monthly income, the institution they work in (innovative culture) sub-dimension and their title in the organization they work in. No statistically significant difference was found according to the gender of the employees and the organization (competitive culture, bureaucratic culture, community culture) variables. As a result, it was found that there is a statistically significant and high level effect between the perceived manager support and organizational culture perceptions of the employees of sport enterprises.