The comparison between the attitudes of employees and clients towards organizational intelligence (case study: Isfahan General Directorate of Sports and Youth)

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This study was conducted in 2013, aiming tocompare the attitudes of employees and clientstowards organizational intelligence of IsfahanGeneral Directorate of Sport and Youth. The current studyis applied in terms of goal, descriptive in terms of natureand survey in terms of data collection. Based on Krejcie &Morgan table for sample size determination from a givenpopulation, 123 samples of employees were selected.Due to the comparison between the attitudes of employeesand clients, 123 clients were also selected throughsimple random method. The measurement tool in thisresearch was standard questionnaire of organizationalmultiple intelligence (Aghahosseini, 2010). To determinethe validity of it, the experts and professors of physicaleducation and sport sciences as well as management andplanning were consulted. Hereby, the content validity ofquestionnaire was confirmed. The reliability of it was alsocalculated through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient as 0.87.The descriptive and inferential statistical methods wereutilized for data analysis using SPSS software in error levelof 0.05. The results of study indicated no significant differencebetween the attitudes of employees and clientstowards organizational intelligence of Isfahan General Directorateof Sport and Youth (P=0.651). According to theemployees, the components of systematic intelligence,emotional intelligence, cooperative intelligence and educationalintelligence were upper than average level exceptoperational intelligence which was less than mean level(P=4.473). According to clients, all components in IsfahanGeneral Directorate of Sport and Youth were upperthan average level but there was no significant differencebetween the attitudes of employees and clients in any ofcomponents of organizational intelligence (P=0.05).