Abstract
The development of community sports clubs which produce innovation in the community sport environment is an important topic in our country. Formally, we have presented an organizing process model for community sports clubs dependant on the theory of social movements. This model tried to clarify an organizing process of community sports clubs as a movement, gradually influenced by constructive factors, psychological factors, and resource factors in community. However, a promotion factor that would influence the progress of each phase in this model could not be examined. The intentional promotion factor offered an interesting point of view in examining the roles of public administration for sport in organizing clubs. This study focused on the behaviors of staff members in local boards of education as an intentional promotion factor in such a process. The purposes of this study were to determine the dimensions of staff members' behavior in the organizing process of the organizing phase. The data were collected by mail questionnaires from 130 management members (except administrators) of 13 clubs that were established through the support of public administration. Management members were presented 39 items about the behaviors of a staff member in local boards of education and 5 items about club organization. The results were obtained by applying factor analysis and simple regression analysis. The main findings were; 1) In the organizing process of community sports clubs, the behavioral dimensions of staff members in local boards of education consisted of eight factors; coordination, getting support, setting discussion, activating discussion, accumulating credit, consideration, performance emphasis, and information. 2.) It was confirmed that many behavioral dimensions had a great influence on an aspect of personal issue perception into common issue perception, and an aspect of common issue perception into change intention, There might be systematic and reciprocal relationships among behaviors in these aspects. These results suggest differences in effectiveness of the behaviors in each organizing phase and the importance of "timely support" for club organization. In particular, behaviors according to the time of common issue perception was important.
