An investigation of job satisfaction levels of sports managers working in amateur sports clubs

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the levels of Job Satisfactions of Sport Managers working at Amateur Sporting Clubs. The research has beeen carried out on the managers of The Amateur Sport Clubs which are currently running their activities 2009 in Konya. The research was carried out by the technique of personel contact. By means of the inquiries applied to clubs elected randomly in Konya, data were gathered at the end of the interviews made with one hundred Amateur Sport Clubs managers, who were elected randomly, too. At research; inquiry's form “Mnessota Satisfaction Questionnaire”, which was used, turns over to computer statistical analyslses, which is SPSS 11.0 (Statistical Package for Social Science), a croowise table is come into existence between variables which there’re relationship between them according to us, and these are done after frequency dissociation analysis at chi-square programme. These statistical meanings are explained according to (P<0.001, P<0.01, P<0.05). Consequently, %63 of the managers working as the head of Sport Clubs are forty and older. Their occupation time and age are parallel and it has been observed that %57 of the managers have been working as the heads of the clubs and their levels of educations of %50 are at the degree of high school and %30 are at the degree of üniversity.In the light of data obtained, it was noted that most of the managers were able to reach sufficient job satisfaction and for this reason it was reobserved that still most of them continued their duties as honorary directors although they never have any pecuniary earnings. This result exposes that the sport management, in the way of honorariness, will inevitably require the people to be away from monotonous working lives and maintain a happier life.