Abstract:

This study aims to examine the relationship between the resistance to change tendencies of sports manager candidates and their individual entrepreneurial behaviors. The study was designed in a descriptive and correlational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. 315 sports manager candidates, determined by random sampling, participated in the research. The Resistance to Change Scale developed by Oreg (2006) and adapted into Turkish by Çalışkan (2019), and the Individual Entrepreneurship Perception Scale developed by Yalcin-Incik and Uzun (2017) were used in the study. In the analysis of the data, Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman Correlation analysis, which are nonparametric tests, were used. In the comparison of individuals' resistance to change scale and individual entrepreneurship perception averages in terms of gender variable, significant differences were found in favor of male participants in cognitive response and behavioral response sub-dimensions. Among the sub-dimensions of the Individual Entrepreneurship Perception Scale, a difference was observed in favor of female participants only in the sub-dimension of motivation. In the results of the correlation analysis, low negative correlations were found between resistance to change and individual entrepreneurship sub-dimensions. As a result; as the resistance level of sports manager candidates to change decreases, their entrepreneurial behaviors increase. For future studies to be planned in the literature, research on the relationship between personality traits, excitement seeking, risk perception, and resistance to change and predictive variables of sports organization employees can be planned.

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