Governance Strategies and Performance Management of Sports in Secondary Schools in Region IV-ACalabarzon

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

In sports, governance can be perceived as the formation of a system through which each organization will be able to achieve its goals using direction, control, and adjustment of the different parts that form it. In general, there are three main approaches to sports governance; systemic, organizational and political (Beech and Chadwick, 2004). Thisstudy was conducted for the school year 2015-2016 and focused mainly on the determination of governance strategies and performance management of schools sports program in selected secondary schools in the CALABARZON Region.

METHODS

The respondent-schools included are selected secondary schools with existing sports program from the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon. The respondents of the study included the students, coaches, PESS coordinators, school heads, parents, members of the LGU and representatives of NGO. The descriptive method was used to determine the implications of governance strategy and performance management of school sports program in selected secondary schools to the physical, moral, emotional and spiritual development of student-athletes as well as to determine the respondents' demographic profile.

RESULTS

The findings in this study revealed that students do not differ in their observation on the governance strategies employed in their school sports program if basedon their division schools, age and sex but may differ when it is based on their year level, competition and level of competition joined; coaches do not differ in their observation on the governance strategies employed in their school sports program but they may have experienced as a coach, trainer, coordinator or other position in the program that are different from one another and that PESS coordinator do not differ in their observation and experiences in terms of employing governance strategies to the sports program of their school. It was found that there is a significant difference in the performance management of the school sports program based on their division, competition and level of competition joined; that coaches differ in terms of their position in the school and in the sports program but no significant difference on the part of the PESS-coordinators.

DISCUSSIONS

Student-athletes firmly believed that their holistic development is affected by their involvement in sports and in their training inside the school sports program; that coaches may have different opinion in the holistic development of student-athletes if based on their age, plantilla position, years in service and position in the sports program and PESS coordinators may also differ in terms of their civil status when it comes to the intellectual development of the student. The performance management of school sports program is significantly related to the development of the student-athletes in terms of the physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and social aspects.