Darbo objektas: orientavimosi sporto varžybų kokybės gerinimas. Darbo tikslas: nustatyti orientavimosi sporto varžybų kokybės spragas. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Išnagrinėti sporto organizacijos sampratą. 2. Apibrėžti sportinių varžybų organizavimo ypatumus. 3. Atskleisti orientavimosi sporto varžybų organizavimo ir formavimo etapus. 4. Nustatyti orientavimosi sporto varžybų dalyvių masiškumą kintant metams. 5. Atskleisti orientavimosi sporto varžybų organizavimo kokybę. Tyrimo metodai: 1. Mokslinės literatūros analizė; 2. Dokumentų turinio analizė; 3. Anketinė apklausa; 4. Aprašomoji statistika. Rezultatai, išvados, pasiūlymai Šiuolaikinės sporto organizacijos neatsilieka nuo verslo organizacijų, jos sugeba pritaikyti naujausius verslo modelius, technologijas, strateginio valdymo metodus. Gerai organizuotos ir sistemingai vykdomos varžybos turi turėti išliekamąją vertę, bet tik gerai organizuotos varžybos bus naudingos atletams bei teiks malonumą žiūrovams. Orientavimosi sporto varžybų organizavimo ištakos siejamos, nuo turistinių sąskrydžių, kuriuo metu, jų dalyviai, kaip laisvalaikio praleidimo formą įtraukdavo šį sportą. Atlikus tyrimą buvo nustatyta, kad dauguma apklaustųjų yra nusivylę šio sporto organizavimo kokybe. Tačiau paskutiniųjų metų statistiniai duomenys rodo, jog dalyvių masiškumas auga. Atsižvelgus į tyrimo gautus rezultatus galima teigti, jog orientavimosi sporto organizavime yra trūkumu ir juos reiktu gerinti. Tyrimas atskleidžia, kad Lietuvoje trūksta... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The object of the work: orienteering race quality improvement The aim of the work: determine the quality of orienteering event quality gaps. The goals of the work: 1. To examine the concept of sports organizations. 2. To define the specific organization of sporting events. 3. To reveal of orienteering events organizing and formation stages. 4. To estimate orienteering sports participants in a competition with the changing years. 5. To reveal of orienteering events organizing quality. Methods of survey: 1. Analysis of scientific literature; 2. Content analysis of documents: 3. Questionnaire; 4. Descriptive statistics. Modern sports organizations keeping pace with business organizations, they are able to adapt the latest business models, technologies and strategic management. Well organized and systematic race has to have lasting value, but only well-organized race will be useful for athletes and provide enjoyment to the audience. Orienteering race organizing origins are going back to the tourist hiking time. In that time participants include this sport as a leisure form. The investigation found out that most of the respondents are disappointed with the quality of organization of sport. But last year, statistics show that the massification of participants grows. Based on the study results suggest that orienteering is a lack of organization and they should be improved. The study reveals that orienteering organized in Lithuania has weaknesses in a high-level competition, which... [to full text]

Title: Legal and economic aspects of management of non-profit sports organizations in the Czech Republic compared to other country Objectives: The aim of the thesis is to compare the important legal and economic aspects of management of non-profit sport organizations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The subsidiary objective is to describe the current state of functioning of selected non-profit sports organizations in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Methods: In order to achieve the objectives the method of document analysis and the comparison method is used in this thesis. The method of document analysis is applied to describe the current form of legal and economic aspects of management of non-profit sports organizations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The comparative method is used through selected comparative criterias to draw a comparison between the situation of non-profit sports organizations in both countries. Results: In the final part of the thesis the similarities and differences between non-profit sport organizations of the type of association in the Czech Republic and type of civic association in the Slovak Republik are described from the point of view of legal and economic aspects of management. The results of the final thesis consist of defining the strengths of the...

The aim of this paper was to study how sports associations or support associations that practice sports, work to include young people with a foreign background in their activities, what activities such associations organize to help these young people create new contacts with other social arenas and what measures they take to counteract or prevent social exclusion. We studied whether and to what extent the members' participation helps them to integrate more easily into the Swedish society by learning the language and getting acquainted with Swedish culture. The study was conducted with semi-structured interviews. We interviewed two leaders and two coaches who are all active in associations that aim to assist the young people with foreign background. This selection of respondents gave us a broad spectrum of what is going on inside these associations. With the interviews as a starting point, we have tracked various positive and less positive topics. Young people with a foreign background can end up in various difficult situations, such as unemployment, which can lead to exclusion or other exclusionary factors that in a broader sense will affect both young people and society. Our study results in that participation in sports or support associations can help young people with a foreign background to integrate more easily into Swedish society, but it is crucial that societal resources are not deficient.

Title: The role of the civic organizations in the life of the small municipalities Objectives: The main objective is to evaluate the relationship between civil society organizations and representatives of public administration in terms of their common aspiration to build cohesion in the former Association of Municipalities Neveklovsko. Defunct micro-region is also subject to consideration of future similar institutions. Methods: This multi-case study is based on analysis of data collected in selected community association Neveklovsko. The project will also draw information from public printed materials. This project will be based on semi-structured interviews with the mayors of municipalities and chosen representatives of civic associations. Results: We found that all municipalities of examined micro-region realize the importance and interest groups in the villages. Municipalities are trying to make these voluntary organizations to promote and ensure better social life of the inhabitants. Recently, the municipalities of the former micro-region worked together again in the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the eviction of Neveklovsko. Recreating of micro-region is not in a sight. Any municipalities do not agree with the financing and therefore they have no further interest in this integration....

Title: Marketing plan of PTU Praha Objectives: The main goal of this diploma thesis was to create a marketing plan for PTU Praha, including analyses of external and internal surroundings. The reason was to propose a concept for that organisation to increase its prosperity by marketing activities. Methods: Both methods of analyses, qualitative (interview and expert pannel) and quantitative (written or electronic survey), were used. Results: Data acquired from qualitative analysis was utilized and summarised in the results section of this diploma thesis. Based on those results and gathered information from interviews the best stratégy with optimal composition of markeing-mix tools has been chosen. Key words: Marketing plan, marketing mix, Prague Sports Union, PTU Praha, sport organization, non-profit organization, PEST, SWOT

This study sought to explore a professional sport venue’s use of Corporate social responsibility (CSR) to promote positive social change, by addressing illegal street racing, through events designed for community participation. This study specifically looked at public dragracing events, titled “Street Fights,” held at a professional dragway. The purpose of this study was to 1) examine drivers’ awareness of the event’s social responsibility initiatives with Street Fight events and 2) determine if these initiatives are promoting behavioral changes in drivers. Drivers at Street Fight events were surveyed (n=77, 60% response rate) on their levels of awareness of the venue’s social responsibility initiatives, as well as, the event and venue’s overall influence on positive social change within the community. Results showed that Street Fight racers seem to be aware that the events were created to offer a safe, legal, and affordable place to dragrace. Street Fight racers also indicated they were less likely to engage in excessive speeding on open roadways due to their participation in Street Fight events.

Valdymas – tai organizacijos narių pastangų planavimo, organizavimo, vadovavimo ir kontrolės procesų visuma, organizacijos išteklių panaudojimas siekiant organizacijos užsibrėžtų tikslų. Kadangi vadovas yra atsakingas ne tik už organizacijos funkcionavimą, bet ir už sąlygų, būtinų organizacijai ugdyti ir darbuotojų saviugdai lavinti, sudarymą, o čia išryškėja besimokančios organizacijos ypatumai organizacijos valdyme. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti „Kėdainių sporto mokyklos“ sporto organizacijos valdymą, išskiriant sporto organizacijos valdymo ypatumus, ir pateikti „Kėdainių sporto mokyklos“ sporto organizacijos tobulinimo kryptis. Tyrime dalyvavo 35 respondentai, iš kurių 71,4 % sudarė vyrai ir 28,6 % moterys. Tyrimo metu naudotas apklausos (raštu) metodas, naudotas klausimynas, kurį sudarė bendra informacija (socialiniai – demografiniai kintamieji) apie tiriamąjį, ir klausimai, susiję su sporto organizacijos valdymu besimokančios organizacijos valdymo kontekste. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, jog „Kėdainių sporto mokyklos“ sporto organizacijos darbuotojų imtis nėra patenkinti dabartiniu organizacijos valdymu, kadangi vadovas nekritikuoja už padarytas klaidas, neturi kritinio mąstymo, nevyksta darbuotojų poreikių aiškinimosi iš vadovo pusės, todėl santykiai tarp vadovų ir pavaldinių nėra šilti ir geri. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė, jog sporto organizacija nesirūpina presonalo ugdymu, joje nėra sudarytų sąlygų darbuotojų savirealizacijai, nėra galimybės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Management - it is planning, organizating, managing and controling process of the organiation members effort and the using of resources of the organization to reach organization goals. However, the manager is responsible not only for the functioning of the organization, but also for the conditions, which are necessary for organization development and training of the staff self-development, formation, and here apparent features of the learning organization in the organization management. The aim of this study - to reveal “Kėdainiai sport school” management of the sport organization, highlighting the features of the sport organization management and submit the direction of improvement of "Kedainiai sport school” sport organization. The study included 35 respondents, of whom 71.4% were male and 28.6% female. The study was based on these methods: questionnaire survey, questionnaire, which consisted of general information (social - demographic variables) about the respondent, and issues related to the management of sport organization in the management of the learning organization. The results showed that “Kėdainiai sport school” sports organization's staff is not satisfied with the current organization management, because that the manager does not criticize for mistakes, has no critical thinking, there is no interpretation of the needs of employees from the manager side, so the relationship aren’t warm and good between manager and his subordinates. The... [to full text]

Free sports are the phenomena that have rapidly developed from lifestyle activities to professional competitive sports over the last several decades. Known for distinctive counter-culture values, many popular free sports, such as snowboarding or BMX, have recently become largely commercialized and experienced significant organizational change. The main research question of this study is how free sports have organizationally evolved over time. This thesis focuses on patterns and mechanisms of structural change and evolution of values of these sports. The research utilized a multiple case qualitative methodology and is presented as a cross-case study of three international sports: competitive snowboarding, competitive skateboarding, and sport climbing. A review of existing literature identified the theory of new institutionalism as being particularly relevant to this study and thus, supplemented by resource-dependence theory, this forms the theoretical framework for this research. This study found that as a result of organizational evolution, informal organizational arrangements, which were historically typical for free sports, have not been uniformly replaced by formalized structural arrangements of mainstream sports. In addition, the organizational fields of these free sports are found to have adopted multiple logics, such as commercial, competitive, and traditional free sport logics. The notion of cultural legitimacy of international sport organizations appears to be central to explaining organizational evolution of free sports. As conflicts revolving over the “ownership” of international sports and the practice of “umbrella” governance are found to be of great concern in free sports, it is the relationship between cultural and regulatory legitimacy that these issues are addressed through. Finally, it is found that multiple power/dependence relationships existing in organizational fields of free sports are largely underpinned by commercial interests and strategies of the Olympic movement. In terms of contribution to theoretical knowledge, this study extends previous applications of institutional and resource-dependence theories to free sports and reveals that the process of institutionalization of sports does not necessarily lead to change of values in macro perspective. However, it can facilitate and foster a separation between two different “versions” of the same sports: competitive sports and traditional sports. This study contributes to wider practical sport management knowledge by raising a question of sustainability of culturally legitimate but unconventional international sport organizations in the global sport business. Another implication of this study is challenging the IOC as a source of regulatory legitimacy for sports and questioning the belief that all sports strive for the Olympic Games, which is taken for granted as the ultimate goal of evolution of sports in a global context. This is a major call of this study to both academics and practitioners, as governance of international sports is expected to remain the topic of a great debate in academic literature and popular media.

Title: Establishment of a Non-Profit Organization Providing Sports Activities with Focus on Law and Organizational Structure Targets: The target of the work is to create a guide describing how to proceed with establishment of a non-profit organization providing sport activities from the legal point of view. Another target of the work is a creation or determination of an organizational structure for sport oriented non-profit organization with a membership of up to 100 members. Methods of research: The following methods were used to create a business plan: literature research, document analysis, semi-structured interview with an attorney-at- law relating to issues of establishment of a non-profit organization, semi-structured interview with a bookkeeper of AK Zlín relating to non-profit organization financing and tax issues. Results: The result of the work is a guide describing particular steps of a process relating to establishment of a non-profit organization. The guide includes necessary documentation for establishment of a sport club as a registered association. Within the work particular financial and other sources are listed with which the non-profit organization might dispose including subsidy programmes eligible for sport clubs with a legal form of a registered association. Further, the work...

Syfte: Denna studie ämnar beskriva och analysera organisationsformer och ledarskap inom svensk golfverksamhet. Svensk golf är speciell eftersom den både finns i ideell form inom Riksidrottsförbundets ramar, i kombination med ett aktiebolag och som rent kommersiell verksamhet. Svensk idrottsverksamhet lägger högt fokus på samhällsvärde, samtidigt som organisationer behöver hantera en komplex ekonomisk verksamhet. Oavsett verksamhetsform kan friktion uppstå och organisationer med multipla institutionella logiker behöver hantera de krav som skapas.   Metod: Studien utfördes genom intervjuer med nio klubbchefer inom tre olika organisationsformer. Klubbchefer valdes för att de antogs ha insyn i verksamheten. Urvalet var strategiskt för att få så stor bredd som möjligt beträffande verksamhetsform, geografi, ålder och kön. Analysen genomfördes tematiskt och utgår ifrån analysprocessen ”Big Q” (Braun, Clarke & Weate, 2016) för att studera intervjupersonernas livsvärld i den svenska idrottskontexten.   Analys: Med hjälp av ny-institutionell organisationsteori diskuteras utmaningar och strategier för de olika organisationerna och för klubbcheferna som leder dem. Ett organisationsschema över golfverksamhet i Sverige presenteras för att ge en beskrivning av den kontext studien analyserar. Här beskrivs klubbchefen som ”spindeln i nätet” vilket representerar den övergripande arbetsroll hen besitter, oavsett organisationsform. Vidare presenteras en tillämpbar praktisk modell för att sammanställa och jämföra organisationsformerna.   Slutsats: De konkurrerande logikerna visar sig kunna hanteras väl inom golfen i Sverige. Verksamheterna i denna studie arbetar med ett integrerat ledningsorgan som tar hänsyn till både den samhällsfrämjande logiken och den finansiella logiken. Klubbchefen är den hybrida individen som håller samman organisationen. En återkommande utmaning är dock hög arbetsbelastning på klubbchef på grund av bristfälliga resurser, både ekonomiska möjligheter och stöd från ideellt arbetande inom organisationen. Golfaren som medlem eller kund är en central fråga för framtiden. / Purpose: This study means to describe and analyze organizational forms and management in Swedish golf organizations. Swedish golf stands out because it governs in associations within the Swedish Sport Confederations framework, in combination with an incorporated company and as a commercialized business. Swedish sports prioritize societal value and simultaneously needs to manage a complex financial business. Regardless organizational form can tension arise and organizations with multiple institutional logics needs to manage the challenges created.   Method: The study conducted interviews with nine general managers in three different organizational forms. General managers were chosen because they assumed to have insight in the organization. The sample was made strategically to get a wide population regarding organizational form, location, age, and gender. The analyze process performed thematically was inspired by the strategy “Big Q” (Braun, Clarke & Weate, 2016) to study the interviewees workday in the Swedish sport context.   Analysis: With aid from new institutionalized theory discusses challenges and strategies for the differentialized organizations and for the general manager who leads them. A club structure is presented to describe the Swedish context. The general manager describes as “the spider in the web” which represents the comprehensive work role possessed, regardless organizational form. The study also presents a practical model is to summarize and compare the organizational forms.   Conclusion: The competing logics is shown to be handled well in Swedish golf organizations. The organizations in this study govern through an integrated management which considers both social value logic and the financial logic. The general manager is the hybrid individual which holds the organization together. A recurrent challenge is a high workload on the general manager created by inadequate resources, both economic resources and lack of support from voluntary workforce. The golfer as a member or a customer is a central question for the future.