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WINNING TEAM CREATION IN CRISIS CONDITION: CASE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL CLUB

If you want to achieve success you have to produce results. ABSTRACT Team sport success is defined by combination of factors: psycho-physical state of the players (cognitive, emotional-motivational and corporal), social factors (team cohesion, interpersonal relationships on the relations: management staff- coaching, staff-players, the players between themselves, sometimes the relationships with the public) as situation factors (elements of competitive situation). All of this mentioned factors can decide between victory and defeat in the competitive situation. Management of sport team is especially important in crisis situations (acute result crisis), and for its resolving it is extremely important to diagnose the causes, accept the facts, communicate the problem and in resolving the problem involve all the club members, this means the adaptation of Action Research methodology. So in every efficient management consulting it is needed to determine key problems (by gathering and analysis the broader spectrum of information, identify the causes of the problems and define and conduct the therapy). With such a procedure can be crated the model for resolving the crisis situations in the sports clubs. So this paper present a model for resolving crisis situations in sports teams on the example of one professional basketball club in Croatia. The crisis was solved by crisis identification by variety of measuring instruments and procedure and than followed elimination of its causes. The problems of management staff (N=3), coaching staff (N=2) and players (N=25, seven seniors and eighteen juniors/cadets) were first identified, and then corrective activities were undertaken to overcome the crisis. After the acute phase of the crisis was terminated, the club management was consulted in terms of human resources management (recruitment, selection, evaluation of performance and potential, promotion to player positions, motivation and rewarding with an individual approach to each player) and then some structural interventions were suggested (both in the senior team and the supporting junior/cadet team). This work resulted in the presented model (procedure) for solving not only acute crisis but also structural problems in the sport teams.

action research; crisis management; human resource management; organizational consultancy; structural team problems; winning team

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