Organizational performance of Olympic sport governing bodies: dealing with measurement and priorities
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Frequently Asked Questions (13)
Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Organizational performance of olympic sport governing bodies. dealing with measurement and priorities" ?
Interests and limitations of the study Further studies are required to combine quantitative data and qualitative judgments in order to propose future developments of the tool used to assess the organizational performance.
Q3. How many Chairs placed the customer dimension as their priority?
The most significant objectives in the customer dimension were attracting members and developing members‘ loyalty and seven Chairs placed the objective to attract members as their priority in this dimension.
Q4. What has the NSGBs been doing to improve their performance?
within the NSGB context, new pressures have emerged from the state, sponsors, members and other stakeholders which have required these sport organizations to become more performance oriented, or to build their capacity in order to better manage their organizational performance.
Q5. What is the importance of the financial resources management dimension in the OSGBs?
In other words, the capacity of OSGBs to obtain and to manage their financial resources is one of the crucial dimensions in order to achieve their strategic objectives.
Q6. What are the two groups of operational goals?
The second group of operational goals is concerned with the importance of the financial performance of organizations, which has been highlighted as important by virtually every researcher investigating organizational performance (Vail, 1986; Madella, 1998; Bayle, 2000; Papadimitriou and Taylor, 2000; Shilbury and Moore, 2006).
Q7. Why is the performance of sport organizations difficult to identify, measure and manage?
the performance of sport organizations, such as national sport governing bodies (NSGBs) is often difficult to identify, to measure and to manage due to their not for profit characteristics.
Q8. How many Chairs placed the customer dimension in the top priority?
They distributed the customer and communication and image dimensions within different relative weights, with the customer dimension positioned in fifth place for seven of the 13 Chairs.
Q9. Why do a great majority of CSGBs not use management tools?
Despite the increasing competitive environment 1 , due to their small size, a great majority of these CSGBs do not use management tools to assess their objectives and to make relevant decisions.
Q10. What has allowed managers to avoid focusing on organizational performance?
For many years, the not for profit nature of these organizations has allowed managers to avoid focusing on organizational performance.
Q11. What is the main reason why the CSGBs are becoming more performance oriented?
as noted above, increasing pressure from public authorities, their members, the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee and their commercial partners is leading these organizations to be more performance oriented.
Q12. How many clusters of CSGBs have been identified according to their strategic objectives?
three clusters of Olympic sport governing bodies have been identified according to the achievement of their strategic objectives.
Q13. What is the quantitative part of the organizational performance measurement model?
The quantitative part of the organizational performance measurement model is relatively sensitive to the size of the cases analysed.