Playing Sports Will Help You at Work

 

The importance of sports in keeping workers engaged, effective, and healthy at work cannot be overstated. Since participating in sports can develop a number of abilities, including teamwork, strategic thinking, and change management, many employers frequently look for employees who do the same.

In addition, it has been found through a variety of research projects, studies, and personal observations that participating in sports has a much bigger impact on an employee's success in their day-to-day duties. This is because they are more capable than their peers, who aren't active coworkers, in terms of increased personal attention and situational awareness.

 

In turn, this blog provides the main advantages of participating in sports and how they might benefit you at work.

Wellness and Good Health

 An improvement in health and wellbeing is the first and most frequently observed effect of sports participation for workers. Sports can have a variety of positive effects on a person's health, including decreasing the risk of obesity, improving cardiovascular fitness, and further reducing muscle tension, to mention a few.

Employees who play sports and engage in physical activity at work are reported to be less stressed and have less burnout when compared to non-sporty employees, research shows. As a result of learning how to handle pressure through athletics, people tend to focus better and have less anxiety at work, which contributes to their overall wellbeing. (Taylor, 2005) 

Teamwork

 Effective participation in sports helps employees develop good cooperation skills, which are vital for them to have at work. Particularly when participating in team sports, participants share a single objective. This is significant for the workplace since participants must cooperate with other team members while trying to achieve the common objectives they aim to reach.

Moreover, sports allow for employees to work more productively with others through gaining the skills to understand other employees' strengths and weaknesses and deciding how to best work effectively with this knowledge to achieve workplace activity success.

Thinking Strategically

 Sporting activities can significantly improve a person's capacity for strategic thought, which is a crucial trait for any employee to possess. Specifically, when playing sports and competing against others, you are continuously looking for the optimal course of action to take in order to win or perform to your highest potential in a certain situation.

This implies that you will assess your own strengths and limitations as well as those of individuals around you in order to create and implement a strategy that will assist you in your current circumstances and enable you to achieve your desired goals. This is important because in work, we attempt to achieve common objectives ad strategically plan a course to accomplish those objectives. In contrast to their non-sporty peers, those who participate in sports have greater expertise in thinking strategically.

Change Administration

 Employees who play sports well at work learn how to deal well with adaptation and unexpected change. As a result, as an athlete, you will find that you are able to adjust to the circumstances successfully.

For instance, if it suddenly starts to rain while you are out for a run or even when playing an outdoor sport, you may need to slow down to maintain your balance, momentum, and tempo. This will give you more control over your physical activity. The ability to deal with sudden change by playing sports is tremendously advantageous to an employee's success at work because, similarly, unexpected tasks may come up at work.

You can improve your abilities and confidence by working toward seasonal goals while engaging in regular training. This is especially apparent in competitions and games where you and your team test your abilities. Over time, small, gradual successes throughout the year can increase personal confidence, enabling you to take on new tasks and initiatives at work with your newly found assurance. (Challadurai, P. 2023)

Perseverance

 Employees at work learn to endure through a variety of challenges and setbacks when they participate in sports. In particular, when playing sports, you could get knocked down, think something is impossible, or run into an obstacle, but you still have the willpower to get back up and keep going, determined to reach your goals or even win the game.

Similar to this, it is crucial to have the persistence to never give up on work. Employees who participate in sports are more likely to endure hardships and challenging jobs to more successfully achieve their intended goals.

 

Competitiveness

 Sport participation is very beneficial for workers since it teaches them how to be healthy competitors. Individuals are motivated to win or accomplish their goals when they play sports, specifically because of their competitive nature.

Sport helps people learn how to tolerate failure and loss, even though in certain circumstances this success may not be achieved. This is crucial since accepting failure, defeat, and rejection at work is a skill that can be learned through participation in sports. Although these sports personnel are competitive by nature, this does not negatively affect them; rather, it motivates them to work harder the next time to ensure they reach their objectives. (Taylor, T and McGraw, P 2006)

Conclusion

 Investigating HRM's various facets can teach us how to enhance an organization's operational performance and efficiency while also having an impact on elements like hiring, selection, training, onboarding, reward administration, etc. Since a few decades ago, competition has increased,

Globalization, ongoing market and technological change, and other factors have highlighted the necessity of rethinking organizational and human resource management in order to meet significant challenges. So that the organization may prosper, managers should use SHRM to resolve major problems and create well-planned initiatives. As a result, formal SHRM implementation and carefully thought-out procedures can result in productive and efficient operations. (Weerakoon, 2016) 

References

Challandurai, P. (2023) Human Resource Management in Sport and Recreation [online]. Available at https://books.google.lk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZL1mEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=sport+human+resource+management&ots=Xatw7VPaj_&sig=POtXBJ2VVwPEGPKhquVY5y-puVY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=sport%20human%20resource%20management&f=false. Accessed on 22nd March 2023.

 Taylor, T. (2005) Global human resource management influences on local sport organisations [online]. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238340910_Global_human_resource_management_influences_on_local_sport_organisations. Accessed on 25th March 2023.

Taylor, T and MaGrow, P. (2006) Exploring Human Resource Management Practices in Nonprofit Sport Organisations [online]. Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1441352306700274. Accessed on 24th March 2023.

Weerakoon, R. K. (2016) Human Resource Management in Sports: A Critical Review of its Importance and Pertaining Issues [online]. Available at https://sciendo.com/pdf/10.1515/pcssr-2016-0005xx. Accessed on 22nd March 2023.

 

 

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