Guidelines for the development of sports association management of Trang Province

Abstract

The purpose of this research were to study the actual and the expected condition in developing the administration of sport association of Trang province, and to present the guidelines of managing the sport association in Trang province. This study employed a mixed-method design. In the quantitative phase was characterized by an initial quantitative phase of data collection by the questionnaire with 400 participants (37 administrative committees and the club, and the 363 athletes) by selecting through probability sampling, and analyzed with the descriptive statistic. In the qualitative phase, the three administrative committees from sport association of Trang province, and the two practitioner personnel participated in semi-structured interviews. The result of quantitative found that the highest actual and expected condition of managing the sport association in Trang province was the planning ( = 4.20), (SD = 0.72) and ( = 4.42), (SD = 0.63) respectively. The qualitative data obtained the concrete guidelines of developing the administration of sport association of Trang province.