Features and personal characteristics related to sports manager career influencing the professional career selection

The analysis of sports managers professional career selection at the beginning of process of university professional studies (Ist year) and at the end (IVth year) (based on the example of tourism and sports management profession at the Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education) is presented in this article. The research aimed to identify internal and external factors influencing the professional career selection of sports managers. The scientific problem was that we were unable to find any identification of factors and personal characteristics that influence professional preparation of sports managers in relation to the years of studies of students in research papers. Research sample consisted of 203 Ist year students and 195 IVth year students. The students were chosen by the principle of nonprobability accidental selection. A modified questionnaire was made on the basis of the questionnaire “Profession” made up by the Sociology Department of Vytautas Magnus University (Savickienė, 2000), which let to determine the features influencing the students’ professional career planning and the choise of tourism and sports management profession, to investigate their personal characteristics and (in the opinion of students) — the characteristics related to the manager’s professional career, professional values, which would let to seek the career, and the shortage of information related to professional career of manager. The majority of the Ist year (2001—2002) students (86.79%) and the... [to full text