Sports for Learning in People Management

Valmir Schork

(National Service for Commercial Learning, São Paulo, Brazil)

Abstract: Sports activities can be used in the form of metaphors, in order to be used in management-oriented learning situations of people. Based on this, an activity was carried out with students from the Technical Course in Workplace Safety, using cooperative and competitive sports practices, to train skills focused on human resources and applied within entrepreneurial management. Concepts related to recruiting and selecting people, teamwork, identification and allocation of talents, definition of tasks, training, the importance and types of leadership, multifunctionality, etc. can be worked in a playful way. The games used were not modality known as football, volleyball, tennis, etc., but exercises specially planned and created aiming to work a clear and objective relationship with the competence worked. Before each game, the rules and objectives of each game were presented and at the end there were debates about the strategies used by the groups and also the strategies adopted individually by the students, carrying out an explanation followed by contextualizing the theories and practices of each concept work in the activities and how they are applied in the labor market. These debates have as their objective the process of action and reflection on competence, in a practical, experiential and playful way, citing the theoretical framework and application in the routines of companies. The realization of learning situations outside the classroom, also stimulate and favor greater integration among students, as well as aiming to make the process of building learning light, inviting and fun.

Key words: learning, activities, sports