A RESEARCH ON NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS OF SPORTS MANAGER
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to determine the must have qualifications of sports executives who take part in the management of several sports activities and services. This study provides comparisons between views of Sports Management students, faculty members, presidents of sports federations and secretaries general, and directors of private sports organizations on these must have qualifications. In the light of these views this study proposes new suggestions. This study includes views of 230 faculty members of Sports Academies, 400 students in Sports Management major, 94 presidents of sports federations and secretaries general, and 40 directors of private sports organizations in Ankara, Turkey. In order to conduct this study, first related literature was researched, and thus a theoretical base for the study was founded. Then in order to determine the appropriateness of qualifications to be placed in the questionnaire, a pre-study was done. The questionnaire was found to be α = .9609. The final version of the questionnaire was applied on all subjects. When analyzing data, initially frequencies and percentages of all participants’ agree proportions on the qualifications provided in each section were calculated.Furthermore, One Way ANOVA Technique was used. As a result of Variance Analysis, in order to determine which participant group(s) was responsible for the variations in groups’ views, Tukey Technique was used.
To conclude, different participant groups which consist of university students, faculty members, presidents and secretaries general of sports federations and directors of sports clubs were found to have quite different views on the must have qualifications of sports executives.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Sports Medicine
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
April 14, 2006
Submission Date
March 19, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2006 Volume: 11 Number: 2