Constructing and Validating Competencies of Sport Managers (COSM) Instrument: A Model Development

This paper focuses on constructing and validating a survey instrument to determine the sport management competencies and to develop a sport management competency model. The initial Competencies of Sport Managers (COSM) instrument was constructed by reviewing the related literature followed by the expert jury's validation. It was then pilot-tested on 223 sport managers, from which in 96 competency statements resulted. The final COSM was administered to 1,334 sport managers and the resultant 816 valid responses were randomly split into two equal halves. The first half of the data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis and the scree test indicated a Six-Factor Model consisting of 31 competency statements. These six factors were named: (1) governance, (2) sport foundations, (3) budgeting, (4) risk management, (5) computer skills, and (6) communications. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed using the second half of the data and several goodness-of-fit indices indicated that the Six-Factor Model adequately fits the data set.

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