Title: Assessment of the performance of physical education organisation of Isfahan Province using data envelopment analysis

Authors: Zohreh Pourakbar; Behrouz Arbabshirani; Seyed Reza Hejazi; Hadi Shirouyehzad

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156-83111, Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156-83111, Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract: To have information about the performance of units under supervision in an organisation is the most important task of management regarding appropriate decisions for leading. In this regard, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of units and their ranking is of particular importance to manager and the physical education organisation is not exceptional for this rule. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of 21 physical education divisions in Isfahan Province using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Input and output indicators have separately been selected in public sport, championships, educational and developmental departments. DEA models have been solved for all approaches with output-oriented BCC model and the efficient and inefficient physical education divisions have been determined in four departments. Physical education divisions were ranked by calculating ideal and anti-ideal DMU and relative closeness (RC) based on the TOPSIS approach. According to the result of ranking by RC, Najafabad and Khansar ranked as the best and the worst divisions, respectively.

Keywords: physical education divisions; performance evaluation; departmental efficiency; data envelopment analysis; DEA; TOPSIS; anti-ideal DMU; ADMU; ideal DMU; IDMU; services; productivity; public sport; championship sport; educational development; construction; Iran.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2013.053646

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2013 Vol.15 No.2, pp.215 - 237

Published online: 28 Apr 2014 *

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