Contribution of Sport Educators Towards Their Management and Leadership Working in Higher Educational Institutions of Pakistan
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Management, Leadership, Sports educators, Sports performanceAbstract
The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship of management and leadership of sport educators with their performance and influence of management and leadership of sport educators on their performance. Quantitative research design was used for the present study. All sport educators working in higher educational institutions (Universities) of Pakistan were considered the population. Hence, the sample were chosen using simple random sampling as sampling techniques. Survey questionnaire was administered to gather the required information as an instrument for data collection. The size of samples was comprised on 210 sport educators. The response rate of samples was noted 85% (179). Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis were considered appropriate to analyze the edited data and achieve the desired findings from the collected information. The analyses were further made using SPSS-26. The findings of the current research proved strong and significant contribution of sports educators towards their management and leadership working in higher educational institutions of Pakistan. Sport educators may be involved in making of national sports policy, sports refresher courses, and sports training and conditioning workshops to uplift the sports standards in Pakistan. It was concluded that management and leadership of sports educators would be fruitful if Government of Pakistan utilized them appropriately through assigning them various sport tasks for the promotion of sports in Pakistan.
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