Physical Activity as a Predictor of Career Success

Metelski, Adam

doi:10.7862/rz.2020.hss.21

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“…The positive effect may come from the fact that through sport a person can develop certain competencies (e.g. perseverance), build social capital, and improve physical and mental health [15][16][17][18][19] . However, in the above-mentioned studies, the impact of amateur rather than professional sports was analyzed.…”

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Higher Education and Athlete’s Second Career

Metelski

2022

J Educ Health Sport

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Introduction and purpose. Many athletes obtain popularity during their time in sports, but what they do after the end of their professional careers is something that is rarely well known. It has to be stated that a sports career is a specific activity because it starts early in life, lasts relatively short, and the greatest successes usually occur when non-athlete peers are just starting to climb the steps of a typical professional career. Some former athletes do great after they retire from sports, but there are also many of those who have difficulties finding themselves in a new for them reality. The article aims to present how the level of education of former athletes’ affects their subsequent professional careers. Material and method. The study involved 301 former basketball players who previously played in 4 top leagues in Poland. The dependent variables in this study are the most common in the literature on the subject indicators of career success, such as earnings and job satisfaction. In turn, the independent variable is the level of education. In addition, the study considered whether the represented sports level influences the acquisition of education. Results. It turns out that those players who played in the top league finished their sports careers later and thus earned longer on basketball. However, more players from the lower leagues have higher education, and they are now more satisfied with their work. Conclusions. It may not be easy to combine professional sports at the highest level with studying. But the results of the research show that in the case of basketball, many athletes graduate from university. What is more, former players with higher education are usually very satisfied with their current job. In conclusion, it can be stated that former basketball players do well in their second careers, compared to the national average.

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Higher Education and Athlete’s Second Career

Metelski

2022

J Educ Health Sport

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Formy zatrudnienia a stres w pracy – badania porównawcze przeprowadzone wśród pracowników banków w Polsce i w Rosji

Zajdler¹,

Kaźmierczyk²

2022

KREM

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Objective: The main aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between employment forms and occupational stress of bank employees in Poland and Russia.Research Design & Methods: The empirical study was conducted in the years 2016–2019 among bank employees in Poland and Russia. A survey of 2,746 bank employees was used.Findings: The article’s first hypothesis – that in Poland and Russia, bank employees under a contract of employment are less stressed than bank employees based on other forms of employment – was rejected on the basis of the results of the Mann-Whitney test. The test showed that working under an employment contract resulted in a higher level of stress. The second hypothesis – that in Poland and Russia, open-ended bankers are less stressed than fixed-term bankers – was only confirmed by the current form of employment in Russia (subindex 2). More important factors causing a higher level of stress included the number of hours actually worked.Implications / Recommendations: Stress remains one of the most negative work-related factors affecting employee health. Banks should consider different methods of supporting employees and reducing stress.Contribution: The contribution of this study to the literature is its in-depth analysis of the level of stress involved in various types of employment. Until now, no attempt has been made to compare Poland and Russia in this context.

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Former Players as Football Coaches in Poland

Metelski

Kaźmierczyk

2020

PMC

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Should sports clubs be managed by former professional athletes? There is a belief in the sports world that team management is a mystery, something that only former players can understand. Some studies indeed indicate that practicing sports may actually predispose a person to also performing managerial functions. The aim of the research was to verify if former professional football players do better than other people as coaches of football clubs. The interest in this topic was due to the fact that like a top manager in a company, a coach is a very important figure in the football club and sport is an important part of the global economy today. The research was based on the top Polish football league – Ekstraklasa. The study covered the years 2015-2020 and during this period, a total of 46 head coaches worked in the analyzed clubs. The results indicate that owners of football clubs often hire former successful athletes, and in the research group their average results were better than others. Keywords: former professional players, management in football, team performance

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Physical Activity as a Predictor of Career Success

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Higher Education and Athlete’s Second Career

Higher Education and Athlete’s Second Career

Formy zatrudnienia a stres w pracy – badania porównawcze przeprowadzone wśród pracowników banków w Polsce i w Rosji

Former Players as Football Coaches in Poland

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