HUMAN CAPITAL IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CLUBS - FIRST CROATIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Zeljko Siric () and Darko Dumancic ()
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Zeljko Siric: Association of sports organizations in the City of Osijek
Darko Dumancic: City of Osijek Social Services Department Head of Sport Sub-department

Economy of eastern Croatia yesterday, today, tommorow, 2014, vol. 3, 195-203

Abstract: People are the key factor of each organization. They are the driving force and bearers of all organizational activities, therefore in analyzing the functioning of any organization certain attention should be given to human resources. Human potentials are exactly the factor which connects all other organizational resources. Management structure in Croatian sports clubs is usually composed of people from politics, economic branches and similar, often they are not qualified enough to manage sports organizations. The objective of the research is to provide an overview of the human potential, mainly in club management in professional football clubs of the Republic of Croatia in relation to achieved sports results. The structure, role and importance of management in football clubs of the First Croatian football league through a quinquennial period from 2007/2008 until 2011/2012 will be presented. The analysis has been conducted among nineteen football clubs in the First Croatian football league, which is also the overall number of clubs in the First Croatian football league in the given period. The results indicate severe differences in the number of employees among different clubs. Regarding the educational structure of managers, most of them are university graduates and undergraduates (baccalaureus). The analysis of clubs data has indicated that the clubs which achieve high competitive results have highly educated staff on manager positions. The possibilities for professional education of football coaches and other sports workers, which are available in Croatia at the moment, are described.

Keywords: human capital; management; professional football clubs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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