Journal Article

THE MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS OF FUZZY LOGIC IN THE TRIAGE PROCESS OF CHILD AND JUNIOR PLAYERS WITHIN A FOOTBALL CLUB

Sîrb, Lucian, Molcuţ, Alin

2014

Overview

Even though most studies from the specialized economic literature approach various problematic aspects linked to corporations, production or serviceproviding companies worldwide, a phenomenon that deserves to be researched is the management of sport organizations because, especially in the contemporary world, sport has become both a means to preserve health and to spend one’s leisure time, but it is also a field in which a significant amount of money is made and invested. In light of this, sport organizations in general and especially football clubs must find the best tools and methodologies of management with the aim of ensuring organizational sustainability. A very important aspect of this undertaking stems from the phase of sorting or selecting and training child and junior players; they represent both the cheapest and most valuable human resource that can efficiently and effectively ensure both a level of performance, as well as financial income within a football club. This is an integrating part of a chain of sustainable value within a sport organization. In this context, the decision-maker responsible for these aspects are sometimes confronted with situations of uncertainty or ambiguity ultimately due to subjective reasoning, especially in the case of evaluating children or juniors; thus, the implementation of a qualitative mathematical instrument represented by fuzzy logic in the sorting and selection process of this human resource that would catalyse the delineation of a chain of value that can be sustained throughout the years within a football club represents a direction towards which any sport entity should aim, not necessarily those concerned with football.

• Publisher: Editura Eurostampa,Eurostampa Publishing House
• Subject: Economy