Development of a Taxonomy of Performance for Moroccan Sports Federations

In recent years, we have witnessed the establishment of a professionalization process in Morocco. Thus, the multiple problems of the Federations push the managers to raise questions relating to management. However, the interest of Moroccan researchers in management sciences has not been focused on this type of organization. Having said that, performance management is a powerful lever for companies’ success. It is based on the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation system via measurement indicators. This makes it possible to evaluate the activity and trigger corrective measures in the event of failure of the strategies laid down, ineffectiveness and non-achievement of goals. Nevertheless, measuring the organizational performance of Sports Federations is complex because of their thorny and paradoxical nature. Based on this observation, we consider it useful to go through an intermediate analysis which will subsequently simplify the establishment of a performance measurement system by these organizations. Thus, we adopt a classification study. The latter allows us a simpler presentation of the profiles of the organizations studied, by bringing together, on the one hand, those seeking to achieve financial, sporting or societal goals. And on the other hand, those who have the necessary resources allow it to achieve these objectives, which guides us to adopt this study of hierarchical classification through the use of Ward’s method. Keywords: performance, taxonomy of performance, sports federations, sport organizations, Morocco