Sport şi Societate (Sep 2016)

IDENTIFICATION OF INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN THE CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF AN ORGANISATION (SPORTS CAMP)

  • Florin Nichifor

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. Special
pp. 84 – 93

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This research aims at identifying the elements of cultural specificities within the Oglinzi Târgu Neamţ camp, which concern the following: activity of the manager and of the managerial team, employees’ attitude, clients’ behaviour (children, students, young people, adolescents, athletes), mental, behavioural, and attitudinal conditions in the context of efforts made to ensure camp functioning. Cultural differences were analyzed based on criteria that enable comparison. Intercultural Management calls them cultural dimensions. I analyzed the overlaps and interferences between these cultural dimensions, in order to highlight the most important aspects and to consider them within my research. The research series comprises 332 subjects, of whom 34 are represented by the managerial staff of the three camps (14 persons in the Oglinzi camp, 10 persons in the Arted camp, 10 persons in the Muncel camp) and 298 are represented by clients of the three camps (171 persons in the Oglinzi camp, 77 persons in the Arted camp, 50 persons in the Muncel camp). Subjects were both females and males and they were divided by age categories, as follows: the personnel of the three camps into two groups – 20-40 years old (personnel with low or average experience) and 41-60 years old (personnel with high experience), while the clients into two groups: 7-12 years (preadolescents) and 13-18 years old (adolescents). Results were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using SPSS – version 17. Identifying and implementing cultural dimensions in a field sport contributes to knowledge and appreciation potential of geo- cultural and implicitly the sports organization ( sports camp site ).

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