SLAM 212 Exam #1 Review

Sport

 A board concept term used to denote all people activities, businesses, and organizations involved in producing, facilitating, promoting, or organizing any activity, experience. Sports can be athletic, leisure, or professional.

Sport Management

The study of all people, activities, businesses, and organizations involved in producing facilitating, promoting or organizing any sport related business or product

Five criteria of sport

 -Teams

- Score

- Competitions

-Winning and losing 

- Practice

Sport Marketing

• Professional sport organizations were scare-minor league and collegiate sports more prominent

• Radio and newspaper media

Sport Enterprise Financial Structures

• Invention of tv made watching sport at home possible

• Beginning of tv networks and pro sport expansion

Sport Industry Career Paths

• Niche cable channels emerged, shows like Sportscenter enabled easy consumption

• Rise of social media

Sport As A Social Institution

• Sharing of ideas is easier than ever- massive technological growth 

• More emphasis on the overall experience for sport consumers

Critical thinking

The ability to ask and answer questions at appropriate times, and the desire to use those questions and accept their result sas a guide to behavior 

Professional attitude

an important element related to your professional success

Career Decision Steps

1. Self-assessment 

2. Research

3. Career preparation

4. Career search

Skills

1. Content skills

2. Functional skills

3. Adaptive skills

Online sport management career resources:

• Linkedin

• National Alliance of Intercollegiate

• NBA Career Opportunities

• Sport Information Resource Centre

• TeamWork Online

• Work in Sport

Proactive people

get things done, work through problems, come up with solutions

Reactive people

 panic, let the emotions get the best of them

Circle of concern

negative energy, things you cannot control

Circle of influence

positive energy, things you can control

Organization

a group of people working towards a common goal

Collective effort

 is a large part of organizational success, leading to economies of scale and economies of scope

Economies of scale

savings originating from the mass production of goods and services

Economies of scope

maximization of resources used throughout an organization

Organizational environment

 all elements outside the organization’s boundary that could potentially affect all or part of the organization

Effectiveness

is the extent to which an organization achieves its goals

Efficiency

 is the achievement of goals using minimal resources to produce outputs

Traditional approaches

maximizing profits, winning games, teaching a new skill, or ability to acquire resources from external sources

Contemporary approaches

focus on internal elements such as employee well-being, strong leadership, and strong organizational values

Effectiveness in Sport Organizations

 understanding your stakeholders needs and wants is vital to effective sport organizations 

Centralized

decisions are being made from the top down

Decentralized

decision is being delegated to people in lower positions and there is a level of trust that allows people to make decisions 

Begin with

the end in mind is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined

The unique human capacities of self-awareness, imagination, and conscience enable us to

examine first creations and make it possible for us to take charge of our own first creation, to write our own script

Through conscience

we can come in contact with universal laws or principles with our own singular talents and avenues of contribution, and with the personal guidelines within which we can most effectively develop them

The key to the ability to change is

 a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about, and what you value

Security represents

your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self esteem, your basic personal strength, or lack of it

Power is

the faculty or capacity to act, the strength, and potence to accomplish something 

The only real limitation of power is

the natural consequence of the principles themselves

The left hemisphere of the brain is

the more logical/verbal one

The right hemisphere is

the more intuitive, creative one

left deals with

words

right deals with

pictures

Human relations management

job satisfaction depends on managers concerns for employees health and well being

Scientific management

approach where managers scrutinize and reward performance

Process management

focuses on managing the organization as an entity and the specific processes of management

Legitimate power

the same as authority; people acquire it by virtue of their position within a sport organization (example: athletic director, general manager)

Reward power

comes from one person’s control of another person’s incentives and accolades (example: baseball coach)

Coercive power

derived from the notion that one person has the ability to punish another (example: referee, conditioner)

Expert power

 occurs because of a person’s special knowledge or skill (example: commissioner)

Informative power

comes from the access to knowledge and skill, not necessarily possessing the knowledge and skill (example: executive)

Referent power

is on an individual’s charisma and another person’s identification with this quality (example: athletes)

Sport sociologists

• Rely on sociological theories and concepts

• Examine social patterns, structures, and institutions 

• Do not focus on behavior of specific individuals

Sport Sociology

the scientific investigations of relationships, social interactions, and culture that are created, maintained, changed, and contested in and through sport 

The different urgents and importants

• Urgent and important

• Not urgent but important

• Urgent but not important 

• Not urgent and not important 

The first wave of generation

characterized by notes and checklists, an effort to give some semblance of recognition and inclusiveness to the many demands placed on our time and energy

The second generation

could be characterized by calendars and appointment books

The third generation

reflects the current time management field

The fourth generation

can be captured in the time management matrix diagrammed

What is an example of a contemporary approach to organizational effectiveness?

Focus on internal elements, Well-being

broke baseball records

Jackie Robinson

Protection in scholastic sports

Title 9

what are the three sport industry sectors

public, non profit, commercial

what news outlet was one of the first to cover a sporting event?

boston gazette

functions of management

POLE (Planning, Organizing, Leading, Evaluating)