Analysis on Effective Management Ways of College Students’ Sports Event Volunteers in Colleges and Universities

Abstract

As the rapid development of our sport industry, big sports events are held more and more where huge number of high quality volunteers is required to make sure the sports event can be operated properly. As the there are great resources of human, materials and equipments, colleges and universities have become important volunteers providers. Therefore, management of college students’ sports events volunteers shall be enhanced to assure the service quality. Significance and implementation ways of efficient management on college students’ sport events volunteers would be analyzed in this article. Overview of College Students’ Sports Event Volunteers Management in Colleges and Universities Awareness of College Students’ Sports Event Volunteers Volunteers of college students’ sports event are enrolled college students approved by event organizers, and co-recruited and managed by schools to coordinate the event organization in order to offer services to a spot event. The recruit requirements are made by event organizers, and implemented by colleges and universities with responsibilities of selection and registration. The students selected shall be under the charge of event organizers and colleges and universities. Generally, college students who volunteered would not be paid in the principle of voluntaries would sacrifice their time and energy to ensure the event to run orderly. Furthermore, the volunteers of college students’ sports event shall have extreme passion and plenty time to blend in Olympic sprits with required professional service techniques. Features of Volunteers Management in Colleges and Universities Sports Event Compared to social voluntary organization, the features of volunteers’ management in colleges and universities sports event are as following: 1). Management organized by students of the youth league to recruitment, selection, training, daily management and assessment; strong organization, discipline and harmony could be applied in management; 2). Temporary could be shown in volunteers management as big sports events would not be held frequently or in a long term; 3). Unified management shall be conducted by colleges and universities for volunteers in college students’ sports event to increase management rate substantially and make the collection regularization; at the same time, the method and pattern of management could be improved in real time and be more scientific. Volunteer Management Content of Sports Events in Colleges and Universities Generally speaking, administrative order pattern used as the management method implanted in colleges and universities make the volunteers in passive position, they can only accept the work assigned by organizers without the right or with limited space to choose the work type. Main points of volunteer management in colleges and universities for sports events can be shown as following: 1). Recruitment and selection. Colleges and universities are responsible for recruitment information published, selection criteria made and relevant position arrangement; 2). Training program for volunteers. Volunteers shall be helped to adapt to the working environment by training program. They get to know what the responsibilities they have and what kind of knowledge and techniques are required in relevant services, and then team work ability shall be enhanced. 3). Daily management for volunteers. Colleges and universities shall manage the status of working, psychology and life of 3rd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2014) © 2014. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 902 volunteers during the services time; 4). Guarantees for volunteers. Stimulus measures would be formulated in exam results and class attendances to encourage college students’ participation in voluntary services and improve the quality of voluntary services; 5). Incentive assessment for volunteers. Colleges and universities would like to assess volunteers’ attendance rate, service quality, service duration and team sprits to award material rewards and spiritual rewards on the basis of the assessment results. Significance of Efficiency Management of Volunteers of Sports Event in College and Universities Benefits for promotion of volunteers’ self-development The volunteers of college students’ sports event would have rich experiences to help them adapt to the social environment rapidly, and they can get in touch with social knowledge that could not be learnt in classes, which has important meanings in promotion comprehensive development of college student volunteer. This could be shown specifically in the following: 1). Benefits for horizon enrichment with knowledge addition. As various services would be offered in the sport event, including language translation, site setting-up, logistic and first aid etc. college students could experience more and powerful advantages for new knowledge and new technology could be provided. 2). Benefits for social communication ability development. During the services, college students shall to communicate with different organizations, social groups and other volunteers. With the help of communication and exchanges, mutual promotion and learning will be conducted to offer a better service for sports events. Therefore, the social communication space could be enlarged and the ability could be enforced. 3). Benefits for positive outlook on life and value formulation. The sense of self-improvement, self-study, and self-education of college students could be promoted by participating in sports event, make the students affected by Olympic sprits and enhance the moral realm and mental shackles, and to set foundation for college students to affirm their ideas and beliefs and realize the value of life. Benefits for competitiveness and development improvement of colleges and universities The development of colleges and universities can affect directly the qualities of college students. By participating in voluntary activities of big sports events, effective management could be implemented to college student volunteers, which could increase their various abilities, promote their comprehensive development, and have significant influence on competitiveness and development improvement. Meanwhile, colleges and universities could public their good images to society with the help of big sports events, to demonstrate their elegant appearance, and to gain more popularity. This would help a lot in enrollment enrichment and graduates’ competitiveness enhancement, as well as in foundation laid for prestigious university construction in colleges and universities. Benefits for sound development of volunteers’ voluntary career Essentially, to get a long-term development of voluntary career, both of its own functions and supports of all volunteers are need. Efficient management plays an irreplaceable role in sports event volunteers’ the voluntary career promotion. On one hand, by managing the college student volunteers, the function voluntary career could be fully displayed, including social integration and functions of guarantee, economic and political. All volunteers in colleges and universities are college students and they are managed object, while the teaching and administrative staff is managers. This relationship of managing and being managed ensured functions of voluntary career to be implemented. On the other hand, with the management of college student volunteers, positive energy shall be stimulated continuously during process of voluntary activities to show their value of life, and good foundations could be constructed in various voluntary activities to promote voluntary careers development.