Job profile and motivation of workers in sports programs with intellectual functional diversity

Abstract

Nowadays, there is no knowledge about the job profile and motivation of people who work with intellectually disabled athletes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the job profile and general motivation of employees in organizations who work with athletes with intellectual disabilities. The sample consisted of the human resources of entities for intellectually disable people (n=112); most of them were between 31 and 35 years old (47.2% men and 52.8% women) and their civil state was mostly single. In general, the results show that these workers are mostly hired (55.6%), with at least 10 years of experience (38.9%), a weekly shift of 1-5 hours (31.4%) and work scattered hours (38.9%). They also stated to be satisfied and practice their profession mainly motivated by their will to help others (80.6%).