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THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE TO TEAMWORK AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS: EXAMPLE OF SPORT CLUBS
Vilija Bite Fominiene, Laima Jeseviciute-Ufartiene

ABSTRACT. The article presents concept of teamwork. There are also discussed employee skills, characteristics and attitudes, which is attributed to teamwork initial conditions, as well as having an impact on team performance. Discussion, demonstrating that employee's positive attitude towards teamwork allows to reveal their best skills and the desire to work in a team can depend on interpersonal relationships and communication competence, raised the research problem - how the communication skills of sport organisations' employees are related to the attitude to team work. Solving this problem, the investigation is carried out. The aim of the study - to analyse the interface between the sport club employees' attitude to team work and the possessed communication skills. A quantitative research method - a survey in writing - was chosen. The results showed significant differences between the attitude to team work and communication skills, between the disposition to be a team member and excellent skills of expressing thoughts in voice, as well as to persuade were determined. One more exceptionally important skill - voice is also related to the attitude to team work.

KEYWORDS: sport industry, human resources, teamwork, communication competence.

JEL classification: L83, M12, M54.