Sport Volunteerism

Sport organisations are increasingly reliant on episodic volunteers for the successful delivery of sport events and sport programs. Therefore managers of sport organisations’ must concern about utilising sport volunteers in their sport programs for effective and efficient operation for that managers should understand volunteer motives and satisfaction (Pauline 2011). In an effort to do this this study was examining characteristics of volunteer motivation and factors responsible for the volunteer satisfaction using Bang and Challadurai’s (2003) volunteer motivation scale and Kuhn and Guzley’s (2002) volunteer satisfaction index. The results can be concluded that most volunteers focus on satisfying their personal goals through participating in sport volunteerism. The finding of this study could be helpful for the sport manager Sport event managers and Sport governing bodies. Which are help them to understand volunteer satisfaction factors and motivational factors why they participate volunteerism in sport. That would be supporting for sport managers to run the successful sport event or organisation through satisfying volunteer expectation.