Human resource management in non-profit sport organizations

Siegfried Nagel, Peter Ehnold and Torsten Schlesinger

Chapter 5 in Sport Management in Europe, 2025, pp 60-75 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Non-profit sport organizations cannot operate without human resources. In sport clubs and sport federations, these human resources increasingly include paid staff, as well as volunteers, even though voluntary work remains a vital resource for clubs offering sport and social services to members. Consequently, recruiting and retaining volunteers is a major concern for sport clubs, which often find it hard to attract and retain sufficient volunteers in formal and long-term positions. The present chapter provides an overview of the main human resource management (HRM) issues non-profit sport organizations currently face — notably resource planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and leadership, motivation and reward management and satisfaction and commitment — and offers practical examples and recommendations for volunteer management in sport clubs.

Keywords: Volunteering; Recruitment; Retaining; Staff motivation; Satisfaction factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035333134
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035333141.00016 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23347_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().