The importance of knowing and operationalizing the effectiveness - efficiency - legality imperatives in sports management

This paper addresses the importance of legal factors with regards to the best management practice for sports structures/organizations and their activities – seen as an integral part of environmental factors. We emphasize the need to harmonize the national normative framework of sport with the already globalized one that is in continuous dynamics, which reflects the efforts of today’s society to have a “Clean Sport” that can only be generated by “Clean Societies”.
These Societies, with respect for human beings and consequently for human rights, are part of the “State of Law” system, an absolute prerequisite for decision-making and legal processes. It would not be possible to build efficiency and effectiveness without respecting the legality – an assertion that also refers to sports management.
Our suggestion and main focus is that the sports manager profession/position, at least in Romania, should be acquired through academic pathways and/or even the qualification provided by a postgraduate degree. Certainly, skills and qualifications are required to gain expertise in Public and Private Law and, of course, in Sports Law.
Consequently, the main idea of this paper is to present the necessity to assimilate the legal culture and recognise the importance of human/athletes’ rights in the knowledge of Sports Law experts, as an integral and mandatory part for the training of sports managers.