Perceived effects of moral and ethics of human resources towards sports development in southwest, Nigeria

Abstract

Globally, researchers have recently revealed that standard measures of morality and ethics once observed in sports arena have suffered serious set back and eroded by illusions and unfaithfulness of the athlete and official because of mining syndrome. This study therefore examined the moral and ethics in sports among sports administrators of colleges of Education in Southwestern Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted in this study while the participants consisted of 300 sports administrators which were selected through random sampling technique. A self-developed questionnaire with rehabilitee co-efficient of 0.74 was used to collect the data using test-re-test method. The descriptive statistics of frequency and percentages were used to analyse the demographic data while non-parametric statistic of chi-square (X2) was 0.05 alpha level. The results showed that the respondents have a good understanding of the fact that norms hang been eroded and discarded because of the mining syndrome. The findings further revealed that sports can promotes skill and values acquisition. Based on the findings, it was recommended that: Sports official, ranging from coaches, managers and administrators need to justify their actions and decisions based upon sports objectives. Sports administrators, coaches and lecturer should acknowledge that the goal of sports participation is to bring about social harmony, therefore, violation of moral ethics is a violation of moral behaviour of sports.