HR At Sports Facilities

Human resource management is the function within a sport facility that is responsible for the recruitment, training, and retention of personnel (Schwarz et al, 2010), but goes much more in depth in an effort to strategically move the organization forward towards a vision.

One of the challenges in sport facilities especially as related to many of the events that takes place in them, is the cost of staffing those events appropriately. This would be devastating to sport facilities because if there are no events, then there is no need for a facility. This has led to the significant growth of another major human resource that works in a sport facility-volunteer.

A volunteer is a non-employee who willingly becomes involved with an organization or event for no compensation to assist with a need that could not otherwise be offered.

Those who volunteer looks at volunteerism as giving time, effort, and expertise to an organization with a need for either socially responsible or altruist reasons; those who take on volunteer look to accomplish the goals and mission of the organization by securing individuals who have expertise to meet the need without having to put them on the payroll.

Human resources are considered to be the sport organization’s most important Asset; people in essence, are the organization. (Covell et al, 2007) Their skills, knowledge, and abilities dramatically shape the organization and have a critical impact on the organization’s ability to carry out its mission and achieve its goals. The process by which an organization brings new employees into the organization is called staffing.

Orientation involves introducing new employees to the organization; training is the education of new employees their job tasks; and development is the further education of the employee to further their skills, and value to sport facility (Schwarz et al, 2010). Each of these processes is integral to the proper management of human resources and hence the effective operation of a sport facility. Effectively orienting new employees to the sport facility and to their positions is critical to establish successful, production working relationships.

Employees’ performance appraisal system is crucial to the successful administration of a sport facility. It is important tool for making decisions about employee advancement, retention, and termination; salary increase and employee improvement.

References

Covell, C. et al (2007) Managing Sports Organization; Responsibility for Performance ( 2^ndEd.). Burlington:Elsevier inc.

Schwarz, E. C. et al (2010) Sport Facility; Operations management; A Global Perspective (1^stEd.). Burlington: Elsevier Ltd.