Incentive System in Hungarian High Performance Sport

Abstract

IntroductionDeviating from the traditionally and voluminously analyzed sport financing, this study will instead focus on the crucial role of key motivation and performance assessment systems. In this way, it is the authors' intention to direct the attention of decision makers to the fact that the solutions worked out solely for tackling situations regarded as financing problems are not sufficient, and that only the exposure and analysis of deeper structural issues can lead to the improvement of the competitiveness of Hungarian sports.

Inefficiency of the Hungarian sport financing systém

“…This study attempts to describe the eff ect of governmental subsidization on professional sport's performance with the aim of understanding why a huge gap has emerged between successful elite sports and the popular but underperforming 'spectacular' teamsports (football, basketball, ice-hockey, handball, water polo). It is important to conceptualize this paradox properly in order to better understand the eff ect of the particular mechanisms in sport policies and to implement successful sport development policies (Sterbenz & Gulyás & Kassay, 2014). The present study examines the eff ect of the changed role of Hungarian government in elite sport and the infl uence of the newly implemented political incentive on the behaviour of sport organizations.…”

Where is victory most certain? The level of luck-based noise factor in Summer Olympic Games

“…In sports, the most important source of risk is luck, which is the sum of those external factors that have an impact on the outcome of the competition, yet which the athlete has no control over (Sterbenz et al 2014;Csurilla -Sterbenz 2018). According to Mauboussin (2012), luck, skill and the combination of the two determine almost everything in almost every aspect of life; therefore, sports can be compared based on how much of a role luck plays in them.…”

“…Instead of luck, we use the definition of noise, which is also connected to risk and can be measured better than luck (Sterbenz et al 2014;Csurilla et al 2019). According to Lazear (2007), noise in the economic sense manifests itself in insecurity in connection with the production and measurement errors of performance for the most part.…”

“…On the other hand, measurement errors of performance occur when workers put in considerable effort yet are judged as mediocre or, on the contrary, when their performance is low yet is perceived to be much higher. In sports, noise comprises all the factors that make the outcome of competitions unpredictable; in essence, it is the difference between the results expected from athletes based on their skills and the outcome of the competition (Sterbenz et al 2014). This means that noise includes not only luck, but those factors that athletes have no control overthese differ from sport to sport.…”