Job profile and motivation of workers in sports programs with intellectual functional diversity

Nowadays, there is no knowledge about the job profile and motivation of people who work with intellectually disabled athletes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the job profile and general motivation of employees in organizations who work with athletes with intellectual disabilities....

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Autores: Grimaldi Puyana, Moisés, Alcaraz Rodríguez, Virginia, Sánchez Oliver, Antonio Jesús
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/109076
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/109076
https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2018.s3205
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Management
Sports
Human resources
Profile
Intellectual disability
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Sumario:Nowadays, there is no knowledge about the job profile and motivation of people who work with intellectually disabled athletes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the job profile and general motivation of employees in organizations who work with athletes with intellectual disabilities. The sample consisted of the human resources of entities for intellectually disable people (n=112); most of them were between 31 and 35 years old (47.2% men and 52.8% women) and their civil state was mostly single. In general, the results show that these workers are mostly hired (55.6%), with at least 10 years of experience (38.9%), a weekly shift of 1-5 hours (31.4%) and work scattered hours (38.9%). They also stated to be satisfied and practice their profession mainly motivated by their will to help others (80.6%).