An Investigation Of Athletes’ Talent Management Provisions In The Educational Settings; A Comparison Of The Higher Education Institutions Of Sindh And Punjab

Abstract

The management of sporting talent plays a vital role in talent development and fruitful results in better sports performance. In sports talent management, provision of gyms, indoor/outdoor grounds, sports equipment for regular practice, availability of qualified coaches and trainers to ensure coaching & training sessions are considered as basic facilities. Similarly, a Player’s psychosocial talent, participation opportunities, and extrinsic motivation greatly affect the management of athletic talent. T[1]he main objective of this research is to assess the provisions of equipment, gyms, grounds, availability of coaches, trainers, coaching & training sessions in the Universities of Sindh and Punjab. A mixed method (quantitative & qualitative) research was conducted on the Talent Management approaches of the Universities of two provinces. Incharges/ Directors Sports for the quantitative study and the intervarsity players for the qualitative study were the population of the study. A convenience sampling technique was applied for the qualitative data and a systematic sampling technique was used for quantitative data. 01 charge/ Director-Sports for quantitative data and 02 players for qualitative data were taken as samples from each University. The statistical analysis shows, the computed value of the t-statistic is -2.383, and the p-value of 0.020 that indicates that there is a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of the "Sindh" and "Punjab” which further indicates that there is a difference in the provisions of athletic talent management in the Higher Education Institutions two provinces