To examine the issues which national sports federations/associations in Vietnam are encountering and potential solutions

Abstract

To examine the issues which national sports federations/associations in Vietnam are encountering and potential solutions

Hoang Minh Quyet Global Sport Management, Department of Physical Education The Graduate School Seoul National University

According to Russel Hoye, Aaro C. T. Smith, Matthew Nicholson and Bob Steward (2005), sport is comprised of three sectors. Firstly, public sector includes government at central, local levels and specialist agencies. Their functions are to formulate, develop sport policy and provide funding to other sectors as well. The second sector is commercial sport organizations, it comprises professional leagues, team members. Last but not least, it is non-profit sector, it consist of community-based sports clubs, governing sports organizations and international sport organizations which provide sports competitions and give opportunity to athletes participating in those competitions. Besides, non-profit organizations perform the roles of regulating and managing sports rules as well as organizing their championship. Moreover, sports organizations in the non-profit sector are regarded as the vehicles for citizen engagement and enable people to contribute their talent, energy and time to engaging in group activities. And the public or private sectors do not provide them with such things (Statistics Canada, 2004). So, if sport is the machine with three gears, non-profit sector obviously is key gear that assures the smooth operation of machine. Any malfunction of this gear work can cause ineffectiveness of machine work or even machine damage. It infers that if non-profit organizations fail to perform their roles, it probably cause failure of involving people into contributing their time, energy and talent to sport. Generally, sports movement and performances in sports will be badly impacted. Accordingly, research on sports organizations in non-profit sector is very needed. Finding problems that they are faced with and giving recommendations in order to fix those problems is crucial. In this research, I would examine which issues are sport federations/ associations at national level in Vietnam encountering. Then, basing on results and my knowledge on sports management, Ill give several potential recommendations. By listing the key factors which probably significantly affect non-profit organizations such as organizational structure, leadership, governance, finance, human resource management, it is found that human resource management and finance aspects are top important. Specially, I would examine how do national sports federations manage, motivate employees, executive members and their board members as well. Then, do they have any difficulty managing their human resources and what are their sources of incomes. Whether their incomes can assure implementation of their strategies.

Keywords : National Sports Federation, National Sports Association, Potential Solutions, Vietnam Student Number :2015-22366