Author(s): Dr. P Malaialagu and Dr. D Shunmuganathan

Abstract:
The present study aimed to find the managerial (organisation) factors affecting team identification. Data were collected from college students which are affiliated to Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (Department of Physical Education and Sports) (N= 420) with different team sports namely 84 responses (20%) cricket,84 responses (20%) Football, 84 responses (20%) Hockey, 84 responses (20%) Kabaddi and 84 responses (20%) Volleyball. The main instrument used for data collection was a managerial questionnaire (Managerial factors such as, organization, performance, affiliation, media, and tradition) designed by Jin-Long Chen (2007) ^[3] undertaken for this study which include 64 items. To examine of managerial factors of organization: Commitment to Excellence (4 items), Public Relations (4items), Stadium (6 items), and History (4 items) total of 18 items in Organization factors. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to find out the significant differences if any different between the managerial factors of organization on Team identification, Whenever the adjusted post-test means were found significant, the Tuckey HSD post-hoc test was administer to find out the paired means difference. In all the cases, 0.05 level of Significance was fixed to test of significance. The result of the study indicated that there is difference between among Cricket, Football, Hockey, Kabaddi and Volleyball on organization. Cricket had aninfluenced by one of the managerial factors organization when compared to Football, Hockey, Kabaddi and Volleyball.

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