A Thesis Submitted to the School of Public Administration and Management in
Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public
Administration (MPA) of Mzumbe University
poor sports performance in Tanzania has been the main reason towards the
conduct of this study on assessing the Effectiveness of Sports administration in
Tanzania: A case of Public Secondary Schools in Morogoro Municipality. Various
researches have been conducted but the gap is still there because they have failed to
clearly show to why Sports in Africa, specifically in Tanzania enter into trouble.
Therefore the study using the theory bureaucracy of Max Weber has been done to
supplement present knowledge. The variables which were put under investigation
were the quality of the sports administrators, the organisation of the sports activities,
relationships of sports activities and structures and the influence of policy in sports
activities; the variables which are analysed in the theory of bureaucracy.
In order to reach to the objectives of the study, case study research design was used
and the researcher selected only 60 respondents from the population of 14814 sports
stakeholders. The sample size was obtained purposively, under stratified random
sampling and under simple random sampling. On the aspect of data collection, the
study employed both primary and secondary methods of data collection. The data
collected have been analyzed by various statistical means like frequency and
percentages
Moreover, the study identified the most common problems related to sports
administration so that the government and the sports stakeholders know the problems
surrounding them. The problems identified are poor sports administrators, poor sports
organisation, poor sports relationships and poorly formulated sports policies that
undermine the progress of sports activities in Tanzania.
The ways on how to combat these problems have also been disclosed in this study
like having well qualified sports administrators, well formulated sports policies, well
organized activities and effectively related sports structures. If these are done,
Tanzania may shine in the international competitions like other countries like Brazil,
England, etc.