The Impact of Competitive Individual School Sports on the Individual’s Future Participation in Competitive Organisational Situations (Based on Empirical Evidence)

Juhász Tímea (), Kálmán Botond and Tóth Arnold
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Juhász Tímea: Budapest Business School, Hungary
Kálmán Botond: Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Tóth Arnold: Budapest Business School, Hungary

Management & Marketing, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, 664-674

Abstract: Competitive pressures at the workplace have already become standard issue. Participation in rivalrous situations and related attitudes are influenced by several factors, out of which a few can be traced back into childhood. Aspiration and over-ambitiousness surround our everyday lives from childhood: there is an intensive rivalry for good grades in secondary school or better performance in youth sports. These experiences all integrate into adulthood behavioural patterns. The authors investigated to what extent childhood competitive motivations influenced subsequent participation in competitive situations at the workplace, if these motivations remain in adulthood, and furthermore, how these incentives fluctuated with time. Based on the results of their questionnaire survey constellating actual and retrospective information, they concluded that competitive incitation of juveniles were still identifiable during later stages of life, albeit they vaguely mutated over time. The results are applicable in miscellaneous practical fields. At the workplace, the attitude of workers is, in turn, definable even before their admission. As regards education and career, answers received for questionnaires being constructed based on these results may assist in the methodology of formulation of the necessary everyday skill.

Keywords: competition; reward; failure; success; school; motivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/mmcks-2020-0038

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