Sports Science and Physical Education
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Item The Challengers of National Olympic Committee in Sri Lanka for Implementing Environmental Sustainable Principles at Sport Event(International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2016) Ranjan, W.; Ranasinghe, D.The study title is “the challengers of National Olympic committee in Sri Lanka for implementing environmental sustainable principles at sport event” which is empirical nature of study that is used qualitative approach for the data analysis. This study main purpose is to discover the Practical challengers of National Olympic committee when they are implementing environmental sustainable principles. This study is mainly base on primary data, which are collected by semi Structure interviews as well as used secondary data from related academic report and wed sites. This study is used non probability sampling method for select the research sample. The findings of this study are: NOC has lack of opportunity to involve in policymaking process of Sri Lankan sport sector, officials have not autonomy to get decision in sport sector, and sport facilities are located in unsuitable locations. In this context, researcher recommended, NOC should have opportunity to involve in sport policy making process, politician should give autonomy to sport officials implementing sport policy, and NOC and government should have to build up proper channel for exchanging each other ideas. This study is only focused practice challenges of NOC when they are implementing environmental sustainable principles, further researchers could be done the ways that can be reduce this practical challenges as well as can be done reasons for happened this kind of changes.Item Sport Policy in UK: The Reforms, Policy Priority and its Effect to Sport Sector during 2000 to 2012(Public Policy and Administration Research, 2016) Ranjan, W.The governments of United Kingdom have introduced and amend several sport policies under their governing periods. The purpose of this report is understanding and examining UK sport policy reforms and its affect to country’s sport sector during last decade (from 2000 to 2012). This study is used basically secondary data and were collected by using purposive sample method according to the selected themes. While this period governments have more concerned about the development of elite level sport rather than community sport. However, it has been changed and has given attention to develop mass sport participation and community sport in mid of this decades due to 2012 London Olympic. However governments got their more attention for elite level sport development as well as gave fewer attentions for community sport as support for elite sport during this decade. The more details have been discussed in below regarding UK sport policies.Item A Study of Factors Influencing and contributing towards the Sport Volunteers’ Satisfaction(Northumbria university, 2016) Ranjan, W.Sport organisations are increasingly reliant on episodic volunteers for the successful delivery of sport events and sport programs. Therefore, managers of sport organisations’ must concern about utilising sport volunteers in their sport programs for effective and efficient operation, for that managers should understand volunteer motives and satisfaction (Pauline, 2011). In an effort to do this, this study was examining characteristics of volunteer motivation and factors responsible for the volunteer satisfaction using Bang and Challadurai’s (2003) volunteer motivation scale and Kuhn and Guzley’s (2002) volunteer satisfaction index. This study used volunteers from around the world who have sport volunteer experience as the sample population as well as both random and snow ball sampling techniques were used to collect data. A Likert-scale online survey was used and administered (n=185) to gain volunteer perception of their motivation and satisfaction associated with individual volunteer experience. The results of descriptive analysis indicate that interpersonal contact, career orientation, personal growth, community involvement and love of sport are the motivational factors encouraging volunteers to participate in sport volunteerism. Thus, multiple regression analysis reveals that Career orientation and personal growth best explained volunteer satisfaction with volunteer experience. In addition, volunteer satisfaction dimensions such as Group integration, Empowerment and Organisation Support are satisfied according to the perception of volunteers with volunteer experience. Thus, multiple regression analysis reveals that empowerment and organisation support are the most influencing factors towards volunteer satisfaction in their volunteer experience. Furthermore, person correlation analysis indicated that both motivation and satisfaction factors have positive correlation. Finally concluded that most volunteers focus on satisfying their personal goals through participating in sport volunteerism. For further researchers can be recommended to do research using different methods such as mix methods, qualitative methods and could use different influencing factors to address the gap in literature of volunteer satisfaction and motivation.Item A study of analysing strategic changers and organisation environment in adidas inc organization(North Asian International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary, 2016) Ranjan, W.Adidas company background was analysed and studies thoroughly to understand Adidas’ strategic changers and change management. The Adidas Company has evaluated by using method of SWOT and PEST for understanding company strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats, for providing critical explanation of their strategic management and its effectiveness of new strategic aims. This report was shown back ground of the company, the next part will be analysed internal and external environment of the company for understanding effectiveness of achieved their goals. Finally that will be found out the finding and providing management recommendation for improving their management systems and strategic changes in effective way.Item Human Resource Management in Sports: A Critical Review of its Importance and Pertaining Issues(Physical culture and sport. Studies and research, 2016) Ranjan, W.This paper will illustrate the meaning and importance of human resource management (HRM), human resource planning, and strategic human resource management, which are critically important for an organization’s effectiveness and must be effectively managed (Doherty, 1998). This study used the literature review method to acquire its final results. The relevant HRM literature review was done according to the purpose of the study. It used the purposive random sample method for selecting relevant literature. This study shows the current economic environment in the sports industry; the second part of the study critically analyzes the value of the strategic management of employees for the effective and efficient operation of sports organizations. It also critically evaluates human resource planning and other pertinent issues in terms of legislation, recruitment, selection, training, induction, and reward management from different international examples in sports management. Over the past few decades, increasing competition, globalization, and continuous changes in the market and in technology have emphasized the need to rethink the management of the organization and of human resources for the sake of overcoming significant challenges (Taylor et al., 2006). Therefore, managers should use strategic human resource management to overcome significant issues and to form well-planned strategies so that the organization may succeed.Item The Financial Performance Analysis of Nike Inc: with Special Reference Year 2015 Annual Report.(European Journal of Business and Management, 2016) Ranjan, W.Nike’s financial statement was analysed and studied thoroughly to understand Nike`s financial performance. That financial statement includes balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement. The financial performance of Nike has evaluated using methods of Horizontal analysis, vertical analysis tends analysis and selected key ratios for improvements to increase cash flow and improve dividend and reduce labilities. Therefore, analysed company`s latest annual report that is the 2015 annual report ending May 31st. That latest company annual report data was compared with the data from last five years from 2010 to 2015 to gain a understanding of company`s performance, which was shown in the trends analysis. According to the analysis data, recommendations have been given to ensure the company`s revenue and reduce liabilities. All the recommendation and suggestions were made according to key ratios which will directly influence company`s performance: mainly the net profit margin, current ratios, quick ratio, and debt to equity ratio, earning per share ratio, working capital turn over and cash return on capital investment.Item A Study of Analysis and Evaluate Issues and Challenges in Sport Events(IOSR Journal of Sports and Physical Education (IOSR-JSPE), 2016) Ranjan, W.The primary aim of this study is to address the importance of issues and challenges in relation to local community and sponsors of international sport events. This report is built on and primary and secondary data. The analysis concentrate on the social issues and sponsorship challenges, due to the fact that the environment pollution, increase crime, traffic and parking issues, loosing sponsorship, and other issues in relation to sport event. The first part of this report will give a brief outline of analysis on social issues and challenges arising due to sport event this report will examine few different issues caused by the economic impact of sport's event for the society and other social and environmental issues and carefully analysing practical solutions provided by other sport event and organisations. The next part will be discovered the sponsor issues and sponsorship challenges, sport organisers has faced in their sport event as well as more concern about the ambush marketing issue in sport events which is critical issue for sport event sponsorship, and exploring solutions taken by world sport organisation and event organisers. Finally, this report concerned all the issues and challengers, providing recommendation for world sport organisations to minimise and reduce negative impact of sport event as well as provide suggestion for improve positive impact of sport event for the better world.Item A Review of Sport Events Impact Evaluation Methods(Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports, 2016) Ranjan, W.“There is currently no internationally recognised method of analysing the benefits of hosting major sporting events. Every country and consultancy uses its own different methodology and there is no accepted standard that allows the comparison of major sporting events” (Global Sports Impact Survey, 2014, pp.3). Therefore this article has analysed to understand sport impact evaluation methods that have used researchers in the field of sport event for evaluate impact of sport events. This research has used purposive sampling method for select the relevant articles for examine the sport evaluation methods. This article mainly focuses on event impacts such as environmental, economic and social.