| The purpose of this study was to determine if cycling event promoters and officials have different perceptions of organization effectiveness (production of a successful event). Fifteen each promoters and officials from the United States Federation Mountain Region and the American Cycling Association recorded their perceptions of the most important manager competencies and effectiveness factors on a World Wide Web-based survey submitted via e-mail. Differences in perceptions were measured by ranking factor and competency means, one-way ANOVAs were calculated to test the differences in means, and Spearman rank-order correlations were used to determine the relationships between the officials, promoters, and their experience levels.; The highest ranked factor was EF35 Readiness and MC35 Obtaining permits, licenses, and permissions was the number one ranked competency by both officials and promoters. Only two factors matched any of the studied models' factors. Four factors and four competencies had significantly different means among all promoters and officials, two factors and two competencies for promoters were found to have significantly different means, and 15 factors and 22 competencies had significantly different means across official categories. All correlational relationships were positive. It was concluded that no effectiveness model studied fit cycling event management (although a preliminary model was hypothesized), there were few differences between promoters', officials', and promoter experience levels' perceived importance of factors and competencies, there were many differences between official experience levels' perceived importance of factors and competencies, all relationships were positive, and based on the previous conclusions, there is no difference between cycling event managers' and officials' perceived importance of organizational effectiveness.; Future studies may seek to determine if differences exist in the perception of organizational effectiveness regionally across the nation or the world, focus on other sports in which the promoter or event manager is the sole factor in the process, focus on whether or not managers view the cycling event management process as effective, determine if differences exist between the perceptions of general businesses and sport organizations, and determine a cycling event management model with a nation-wide survey of all officials and promoters of the USCF and regional cycling governing bodies. |
