Personnel and human resource management specifics of basketball clubs : the case of post-transitional South-East European countries

Ivašković, Igor (author)

The article aims to explore and present the personnel structures and human resource management specifics of basketball clubs from four post-transitional South-East European countries. First, the author presents the post-transitional context, by conducting analyses of variance ant t-tests highlights the differences between clubs at different quality levels regarding financing and the degree of professionalization, and describes the implications on the personnel structures. The second part analyzes the impact of various stakeholders on human resource management processes, and in that context presents the head coach’s role in observed basketball clubs. The findings show the higher quality clubs have better infrastructure, larger financial budgets and obtain higher percentage of funds from private sources. First-division clubs are more professionalized and have larger administrative organizational parts compared to their second and third division counterparts. The largest share of responsibility for organizational performance is on head coaches, athletes, and clubs' presidents. The sporting directors’ influence on human resource management related decisions and their responsibility for the performance increase, while the influence of the clubs' presidents decreases with the quality of division. Finally, sponsors' representatives and athletes’ agents are also relatively more influential in higher-ranked clubs.

• Language: English
• Keywords: personnel, human resource management, non-profit organizations, basketball clubs, transition
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 38-53
• Numbering: Vol. 1, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125242
• UDC: 796.01
• ISSN on article: 2706-4743
• DOI: 10.47954/ijcbe.1.2.3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 53509891
• Publication date in RUL: 09.03.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of contemporary business and entrepreneurship
• Shortened title: Int. j. contemp. bus. entrep.
• Publisher: The Entrepreneurship Club
• ISSN: 2706-4743
• COBISS.SI-ID: 33430787

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 09.03.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: šport, management, uspešnost poslovanja, sports, management, business efficiency