KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT APPLIED TO PUBLIC SPORTS AND LEISURE POLICIES

Abstract

The article aimed to present knowledge management as an instrument applicable to public sports and leisure policy, taking into account the various stages that make up the policy cycle. For this purpose, this essay listed the theoretical assumptions that permeate the theme, relating them to the phases of the policy (agenda formation, formulation, implementation and evaluation) in the sports context. From the data, the types and sources of information for the systematization of knowledge management in the universe of sports and leisure policies are evidenced in the phases of the political cycle, involving information that allows diagnosing, monitoring and evaluating the management of actions through the survey of elements which involve social indicators, legal and bureaucratic aspects, the multiple agents involved, budgetary resources, human and material resources, among others. The reflections indicate a path for the process of institutionalizing knowledge management within the scope of public management in this sector, but it also highlights the limitations and weaknesses present in government contexts. In general, it is concluded that knowledge management presents itself as a healthy tool to be used by sports managers in order to systematize the flow of knowledge produced by the political process in question, as well as organize such information with a view to qualifying the decision-making based on technical-scientific evidence.