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Characteristics of sport managers and challenges facing sport organisations

This paper aims to research into the opinions of future employees of sport organisations regarding needed knowledge and skills of sport managers. The sample consisted of fourth year students of the Faculty of Kinesiology University of Zagreb enrolled into subject Economics and Management of Sport. In total 537 questionnaires were collected in the last five academic years (from 2013/2014 until 2017/2018). The research revealed that majority of students (82%) find that sport managers in their work dominantly need people skills (communication and teamwork). In addition, a list of 12 various specific individual competencies was provided and students were asked to choose five they find most important for sport managers’ work. Willingness to take risks was chosen most often (by 62, 7% of students), followed by the ability to organise work (60%), sport managers’ expertise (58, 6%), entrepreneurial abilities and knowledge (56, 6%), etc. However, sport managers’ expertise (knowledge) needed for his/her position was most commonly awarded first rank (by 18, 6% of all interviewees).

sport managers, challenges, knowledge, skills, abilities

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