DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY OF SPORT GOVERNING BODIES OF GHANA: DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE

• Main Authors: Christopher Essilfie, Packianathan Chelladurai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Social Sciences Research Society 2016-07-01
• Series: International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies
• Online Access: http://www.sobiad.org/eJOURNALS/journal_IJSS/arhieves/IJSS2016_2/Paper18_Essilfie_Chelladurai.pdf
• ISSN: 1309-8063; 1309-8063

Based on the McKinsey Capacity Assessment Grid (McKinsey Company,2001), we generated79 items to represent 14 dimensionsof organizationalcapacity of national sport governing bodies in Ghana. The respondents (n = 226)from the regional branches of 22 national sport governing bodies in Ghana scoredtheir level of agreement on a seven-point scale with each of the 79 items. Thoseitems that did not correlate well with the total for the respective subscale andthose subscales with reliability estimates lower than .6 were eliminated. Further,each subscale was subjected to factor analysis extracting only one factor. The toploading four items were retained to represent the subscale. The resulting 48 itemsrepresenting 12 dimensions of organizational capacity were subjected toconfirmatory factor analysis. As the fit indices did not meet with acceptablestandards, we resorted to item parceling creating two parcels of two items each torepresent a factor. The CFA of the parceled items showed that the fit indices wereacceptable ( #967;2/df =382.971/177 = 2.164 (p lower than 0.001); RMSEA = .072 (.062-.082);TLI = .93; CFI = .952).If the stability of the subscale structure of this instrumentcould be confirmed with a new data set from another national context, the scalewould be a valuable tool to evaluate the organizational capacity of national sportgoverning bodies around the world.