Examination Of Crisis Management Levels of Sports Managers

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to examine crisis management levels of sports managers. Descriptive survey model was used in the study for this purpose. Population of the study consists of sports managers in Turkey, while the sample consists of 131 participants selected with random sampling method among sport managers working in Provincial Organizations of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. “Personal Information Form” developed by the researchers and “Crisis Management Scale” developed by Çalışkan (2020) were used in the study as data collection tool. Student t-test, one-way analysis of variance and Tukey multiple comparison tests were used in the assessment of study data. No significant difference was found in the variables of age and education. However, significant difference was found in the post-crisis activities sub-dimension in gender variable, in pre-crisis activities sub-dimension in marital status variable, in post-crisis activities and crisis management scale total score, in all sub-dimensions and total scores in the variables of title and the duration of working in the institution. It was found that married and male managers who had a working duration between 0 and 5 years and the participants who were district directors had high mean scores. Therefore, it is very important to have managers who are successful in crisis management in terms of regular and systematic execution of the sports phenomenon.