A motivação de voluntários em eventos esportivos no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Gustavo Bavaresco
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/116356
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

Volunteering is in many manifestations, one in particular is the sporting events, generating benefits for the human resources and for the functioning of the organization as the volunteers add value to the event and the life of the people who lead it. The sport is characterized by its essence in attracting countless volunteers, to the organizations and sports events generating diverse motivations. In this way, the volunteer's motivation suggests a complex system of reasons that differ depending on the characteristics of the event or organization. Thus, the present investigation had as main aim to contribute to the fomentation and development of the sport management in order to help to identify the influence of the motivations, the perception of value and the future behavior of volunteers in sporting events. In this sense, it was sought to analyze whether or not there were differences between the motivations of volunteers at sporting events in Brazil based on their demographic characteristics, as well as to identify if there was an influence of the volunteers' perception of values towards cities, states and the host country of the sports events and also if there was a future behavior from the initiative of the volunteer to return in a future sporting event. The results pointed out some differences between the motivations, being at the level of education evidences differences as to Love to Sport. The interaction between gender and level of education also evidences differences as to the Love to Sport and the interaction gender and type of event evidences differences as to the factor Involvement of the Community. The motivation significantly influenced both symbolic and utilitarian values, as well as future behavior. The present dissertation constitutes an important step to explore the motivation of volunteers in sporting events and its relationship with the characteristics, values and future behavior, highlighting the idea of contributing to the improvement of volunteering in Brazil, besides presenting implications in the scientific and managerial scope.