Tenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

The present paper has tried to correlate the sports management approach towards Indian sports activities. Sports management has been defined as a system of managing resources, manpower and activities for smooth conducting of sports events. Dharam Singh has rightly observed that management is essential in physical education because physical education like any other essentially activity curriculum, needs a carefully drawn set of principles as guides to its development. These principles help to manage activities and resources based on systematic lines. Deepak Jain has observed that any department that is to functioning adequately must have sound, well established administrative policies, or guiding rules, as a basis on which to operate. Sports management is not exception to this. Sports management must be based on sound policies and procedure. It is true that policies, unlike objectives, usually indicate the method of approach or means of procedure rather than the point to be gained. It is interesting to note that sports management requires policy, procedure as well as clear objectives. The planning requires short term, mid term and long term goals. It has been observed that it is not enough to struggle along solving problems as they arise. Conditions may make it possible to go through the motions of conducting a department by this resort to lame expedients, but sound administration demands a positive, planned procedure rather than a floundering makeshift.