Assessing the Strategic Plan of Ethiopian Football Federation
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2020-12-12
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Addis Ababa University
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The Ethiopian football federation is responsible body for all regulatory football processes and professional leagues in Ethiopia including the Ethiopian premier league, Ethiopian higher league, Ethiopian first league and the Ethiopian women’s premier league along with the second tier of the women’s professional football league. To run all activities of the federation it has the strategic plan.Strategic plan for sport federations show the direction where we are and where we want to be, without strategic plan we cannot able to achieve the objectives and goals of the sport federations. The main purpose of the study was to assessing the strategic plan of Ethiopian football federation. Total populations of the study were 84 but the researcher was select 54 employees of Ethiopian football federation as a sample by using comprehensive sampling technique.The data collection instruments were: questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. Based on the result the researcher forwarded the following findings: - The strategic plan of Ethiopian football federation is formed by different expertise who have enough awareness about strategic plan formation and it is approved by general assembly members of the federation, the Ethiopian football federation is applying standard procedures on its strategic plan formation process, and he major barriers on Ethiopian football federation strategic plan are employees’ resistance to change, lack of financial resource, weak performance management system political influence, political instability, linkage to country’s strategic plan and rapid technology development.And finally, the researcher recommended:- the Ethiopian football federation strategic plan developed by expertise is better to the federation to develop advanced strategic plan, applying standard strategic plan procedures on the federation’s strategic plan is help the federation to show the direction where are now and where want to be the future and lastly the governed body must find a solutions for major challenges of the federation’s strategic plan.
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Strategic Plan, Performance, Football Federation and Sport