This research aims to examine the current administrative system of Saudi Universities Sport Federation (SUSF) based on quality assurance. Researchers used descriptive method-case study-due to its appropriateness for the nature of the present research. Researchers collected data through The Current Administrative System Questionnaire (CASQ) for SUSF employees. The Survey of Total Quality Assurance for SUSF top management (STQA-Management) and The Survey of Total Quality Assurance for SUSF beneficiaries (STQA-Beneficiaries). Results show that SUSF's goals are clearly set, also SUSFs' plans are consistent with the general goals of the Sports Welfare Movement at Saudi Arabia. However, beneficiaries reported some limitation in implementing the principles of total quality assurance management. Therefore, researchers suggested an administrative system for SUSF based on total quality assurance. Introduction and Statement of the Problem: Modern management is currently seeking to develop and upgrade its techniques in order to keep up with administrative change and development at the global level (9 : 15). The institutions which believe that the function of management is to organize resources and employ them within the institutions to achieve external results will not be able to hold out in a world dominated by constant competitiveness, change and modern technology (2 : 14). Therefore, it is necessary to pay serious attention to the management techniques through which these institutions are run and managed in order to achieve competitive advantage. Quality is considered one of those elements through which competitive advantage, which is strategically necessary for the continuity and success of organizations, can be achieved (36 : 8). Concern with the quality of services provided by governmental organizations has been recently increased due to the problems impeding the performance of these organizations. Therefore, several organizations have adopted certain management techniques which proved to be effective in achieving improvement, and of these techniques is total quality management (2 : 257). Total quality management is considered one of the modern management trends adopted for the purpose of attaining better performance that helps solve several problems and difficulties related to quality, performance improvement and competitiveness of the organization (3 : 6). The higher education sector is one of the most important sectors in the field of youth work as it involves an elite of the youths of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They are categories that sports services must be directed to them as being one of human preparation elements and his physical, mental, psychological and social rehabilitation in a consistent way with the society philosophy in which he lives in order to ensure him the ability of global competitiveness (5 : 2).
The study aimed to assess the impact of mental fitness factors on the development of physical, health, psychological, and social abilities on a group of students’ athletes at Northern Border University, where mental fitness plays major role to enhance athletes’ abilities in the sports field. The researcher used a descriptive analysis method approach; where constructed survey questionnaire applied for data collection, which used to measure the impact of mental fitness standards on the development of athletes' physical, psychological, and social abilities in Northern Border University. Sample was randomly selected of students’ athletes’ population at Northern Border University, they comprised of (91) male and female students. Result indicated a high statistically significant of agreement among the participants in the study on the importance of mental fitness in enhancing and developing each of physical, psychological, and social abilities, and all the main and sub-items were characterized by the importance and high degree to achieve the objectives of the study. The study also recommended the need to disseminate mental fitness standards among all university student-athletes, with the development of a permanent plan to develop mental fitness standards among university students, and the need to support the university and the Ministry of Higher Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for various studies on the role of mental fitness in promoting and developing physical, psychological, and social abilities.
The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of sports stressors and coping strategies among volleyball referees during match management. Although psychological stressors are inherited in the sports arena, research in controlling or limiting stressors among athletes in multiple sports settings are rapidly growing field of sports literature. However, stressors faced by volleyball referees have received less attention from researchers. This study attempts to develop a framework for identifying the most stressful situations experienced by volleyball referees during matches. Participants were a straightforward sample consisting of 18 volleyball male referees registered in the Saudi Volleyball Federation at the Northern Border region. A Stressors of Volleyball Referee Survey (SVRS) was designed and applied, which consisted of five dimensions based on sources of stress: players, coaches, spectators, mass media, and officiating-technical pressure; these dimensions contain a total of 38 items presented. Results found that all the main and sub-dimensions items for SVRS correlation coefficients ranged between 0.639 and 0.798, which were statistically significant at the level of stability of 0.01. Data revealed that the dimension of officiating-technical pressure ranked as the highest psychological stressor of the total scale's dimensions with an average of 19.78, whereas the lowest ranking score of the total scale's dimensions was the coaches' pressure dimension with an average of 19.56. The study recommended that future studies should apply an intervention program that trains volleyball referees to gain confidence and maintain resilience in order to cope with all stressors faced during matches.
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