Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was used as a business strategy to enhance reputation, increase competitive advantage, and reduce risk. The purpose of this study was to construct the CSR indicators of professional sport organization. In-depth interviews and Delphi method were conducted. Professional sport team managers, secretary generals of sport organizations and experts in sport management participated in this research. Results indicated that CSR of professional sport organization contained 4 dimensions, 13 sub dimensions and 56 sub indicators. The main indicators include enhancing the performance of professional sport organization, increasing competitiveness of professional sport organization, protecting stakeholder's interests, obeying the law, complying the collective bargaining agreement, protecting environment, providing safe merchandise and stadium, assisting sport promotion, assisting employees' career development, protecting consumer rights, promoting sport, education and health programs, assisting philanthropy organizations, and enhancing community's life quality.
Different from previous studies focusing on the skill performance in professional golf, this study utilize the non-oriented SBM model of DEA to evaluate the performance of the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tournament players. DEA is used to assess the overall efficiencies, as well as to conduct slack variable analysis of players' performance in 2008 based on the LPGA official web statistical data. In this study, four inputs (including Average Non-green Shots, Putts Per GIR, Sand Saves, and Average Driving Distance) and two outputs (Scoring Average and Official Money Ranking) are selected as the performance index of LPGA players. The results confirm that the most efficient players are not necessarily the top players on the list of official money ranking but also the lower positions. Inefficient players could advance their games varied by skills in lowering the strokes and raising their earnings as improving range suggested. Skill competencies of professional golf players seemed to be weighted differently and players shall choose the right direction for improvement to advance their career earning efficiently on the tours.
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