Crisis Management among Administrators in Sports Federations and Clubs in Palestine

This study aimed to identify the status of the crises management among the sports federations and clubs administrators in Palestine. The study population consisted of all sports federations and sports members in Palestine with total of (615) members. The study was conducted after selecting a random sample of (183) members out of the population. The researcher designed a 42-subsection questionnaire distributed over the following four major sections: crisis management from management perspective, crisis management from technical perspective, crisis management from financial capability respective, and finally crisis management from political perspective. The methodology has been verified and validated by experts in the field and by statistical analysis to confirm the validity of the approach used in the study. The statistical analysis has been conducted by using the statistical software package (SPSS). The study revealed that the level of management crisis by the administrators at the sports federations and clubs is very high, it reached (81.24%) of the total degree of crisis management according to Likert measurement. Also the crisis management from financial capability respective section was the highest proportion, it reached (82.60%), and the crisis management from technical perspective section was the lowest rate, it reached (79.74%), The study also showed no statistical differences at Likert scale level ( a≤ 0.05) in the values of the study sample of the’ crisis management levels at the sports federations and clubs in Palestine when it measured according to the variables of the level of education and years of experience, meanwhile the study shows that there were differences in the study sample values of the crisis management when it measured according to the variables of the right to work, toward conveying the governing body of the club, the specialty variable, and the variable of majoring in physical education.