AbstractsEducation Research & Administration

Club's audit of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation

by Istvan Antal




Institution: HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
Department:
Year: 2014
Keywords: audit; sports organization; coaching; education; planning; strategies; yearly plan
Record ID: 1131101
Full text PDF: http://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/78287


Abstract

This thesis presents the first club‟s audit in ice hockey of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation. The author was given the task to elaborate the material which can be used to perform an audit between the clubs that the HIHF consists of. The International Ice Hockey Federation introduced the auditing process in 2008 where they started collecting the information from all their member associations. The Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation took that concept further by addressing the clubs with this matter. The objective of the audit was to understand how the clubs operate, what they needs are and what resources to create which meet their specific needs. Another objective was to make them aware of their possibilities, uncover new ideas and make them un-derstand to work their organization as a business by planning the work and working the plan. This study was designed to collect insight about the operation methods of the organizations. Research questions we‟re oriented to pursue the importance of planning and to find out how many clubs are planning short and long term as well. The study can be classified as a research oriented thesis using as methodology both quantitative and qualitative methods. The author considered the necessity of using a quantitative re-search since there we‟re 33 clubs from whom data needed to be collected. A question-naire was used which consisted of an online and a personal interview part that gave well-grounded data which during the interview was solidified. The results altogether we‟re not encouraging at all, and for that reason immediate steps are needed to be taken. It can be concluded that certain key areas like developing strategies, planning, organizational structuring, coaches education have to be strengthened in the future. Thinking of ice hockey on a daily basis it is the coaches who have the biggest impact in the sport, they have the biggest impact for the kids and for the sport. Therefore one of the first steps from the side of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation was to assign people responsible for coaching education and to rebuild the coaching education program.