Recruiting and Integrating Personnel in a Sporting Organization. Case Study: Liga Economistului, 2010-2011 Season

The paper presents how the recruitment and integration process of personnel was managed in Liga Economistului, a football championship in college sport. Sporting organizations, like for example leagues, clubs, associations, federations or teams, may find themselves in the situation of selecting and integrating personnel in order to fulfil needs or demands induced by participating athletes or teams, managerial structures, fans or stakeholders, or by the market, in general. This paper wants to present a successful model of recruiting and integrating human resources into a sporting organization. The model was implemented in late summer and early fall of the year 2010, before the fourth season of the Liga Economistului football championship started. Volunteers were recruited in order to help in organizing the league.