<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/14391" mdate="2011-05-20 00:00:00"> <author>Farideh Sharififar and Zahra Jamalian and Reza Nikbakhsh and Zahra Nobakht Ramezani</author> <title>Influence of Social Factors and Motives on Commitment of Sport Events Volunteers</title> <pages>767 - 771</pages> <year>2011</year> <volume>5</volume> <number>5</number> <journal>International Journal of Sport and Health Sciences</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14391</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/53</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>In sport, human resources management gives special attention to method of applying volunteers, their maintenance, and participation of volunteers with each other and management approaches for better operation of events celebrants. The recognition of volunteers characteristics and motives is important to notice, because it makes the basis of their participation and commitment at sport environment. The motivation and commitment of 281 volunteers were assessed using the organizational commitment scale, motivation scale and personal characteristics questionnaire.The descriptive results showed that; 64 of volunteers were women with age average 2124 years old. They were physical education student, single (719), without occupation (53) and with average of 5 years sport experience. Their most important motivation was career factor and the most important commitment factor was normative factor. The results of examining the hypothesized showed that; age, sport experience and education are effective in the amount of volunteers commitment. And the motive factors such as career, material, purposive and protective factors also have the power to predict the amount of sports volunteers commitment value. Therefore it is recommended to provide possible opportunities for volunteers and carrying out appropriate instructional courses by events executive managers.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 53, 2011</index> </article>