Applied Sport Management Skills 4th Edition With HKPropel Access

Applied Sport Management Skills, Fourth Edition With HKPropel Access, takes a practical approach for teaching students how to become strong leaders and managers in the world of sport. Organized around the central management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and addressing the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Common Professional Component topics and North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) guidelines, the fourth edition has been extensively updated with hundreds of new references and sport examples.

The text employs a three-pronged approach for teaching management theory, putting theories into practice, and developing students’ management skills. Timely discussions and case studies address the impacts of COVID-19; Black Lives Matter initiatives; name, image, and likeness rules; women in executive positions; corporate social responsibility; data analytics; and more.

While other texts focus on learning about sport management, Applied Sport Management Skills enables students to apply the principles while developing the skills to become effective sport managers. Interactive online learning tools available through HKPropel complement activities found in each chapter:

• Flash-card activities help students learn key terms.
• Self-assessments, which ask students to identify their strengths and weaknesses and plan to improve shortcomings, are now assignable, trackable, and automatically scored.
• Applying the Concepts quizzes, which challenge students to identify management concepts illustrated in various situations, are now trackable and automatically scored.
• Time-Out features, in which students apply management concepts to their personal sport and work experiences, are now assignable instructor-scored assessments.
• Case studies are now supplemented by 10-question automatically scored quizzes and include three open-ended discussion questions.

Additional assignments available in downloadable documents for students to complete and submit to the instructor further facilitate the application of the concepts presented in the text:

• Sport Management Professionals @ Work activities provide a cohesive thread to keep students focused on how sport managers use the concepts on the job.
• Skill-Builder Exercises present real-world scenarios designed to help future managers handle day-to-day situations such as setting priorities, conducting job interviews, handling conflict, and coaching employees.
• Sports and Social Media Exercises introduce students to the role of social media in managing sport organizations. Students review popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and visit sport websites.
• Game Plan for Starting a Sport Business features ask students to perform managerial tasks such as developing an organization structure and brainstorming ideas for leading employees.

With Applied Sport Management Skills, students will be primed for an exciting career in sport management by gaining a thorough understanding of management theories and developing the acumen to apply them.

Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.

Audience

Applied text for students in sport management and administration, sport business, sport leadership, sport industry, and other sport management courses; reference for sport managers and libraries. The book is especially relevant to programs offering a management course taught by business faculty. Following COSMA and NASSM guidelines, it contains the management principles (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) of traditional business books but with sport examples throughout the book.

Part I. Introduction to Sport Management

Chapter 1. Managing Sports
Why Study Sport Management?
The Sport Industry and Sport Management
Sport Manager’s Responsibilities
What Does It Take to Be a Successful Manager?
What Do Sport Managers Do?
How Do Managers Differ?
Learning Aids

Chapter 2. The Sport Industry Environment: Globalization, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
Internal Environment and Quality in Sport
External Environment
Conducting Sport Business in a Global Environment
Ethics in Sport Management
Why Good People Use Unethical Behavior
Guides to Ethical Behavior and Managing Ethics
Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Learning Aids

Part II. Planning

Chapter 3. Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making
An Overview of Problem Solving and Decision Making
Step 1: Define the Problem or Opportunity
Step 2: Set Objectives and Criteria
Step 3: Generate Alternatives
Step 4: Select the Most Feasible Alternative
Step 5: Plan and Implement the Decision
Step 6: Control the Results
Learning Aids

Chapter 4. Strategic and Operational Planning
An Overview of Strategic and Operational Planning
Strategic Process
Analysis of the Environment
Setting of Objectives
Corporate-Level Strategy
Business-Level Strategy
Operational-Level Strategies
Implementing and Controlling the Strategies
Learning Aids

Part III. Organizing

Chapter 5. Organizing and Delegating Work
The Organizing Function
Authority
Organizational Design
Job Design
Organizing Yourself and Delegating Work
Learning Aids

Chapter 6. Managing Change, Culture, Innovation, and Diversity
Managing Change
Organizational Culture
Innovation and Quality
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I)
Diversity Groups and Sports
Organizational Development
Learning Aids

Chapter 7. Human Resources Management
Human Resources Management Process and Department
Legal Environment
Human Resources Planning and Job Design
Attracting Employees
Interviewing
Developing Employees
Performance Appraisals
Retaining Employees
Learning Aids

Part IV. Leading

Chapter 8. Behavior in Organizations: Power, Politics, Conflict, and Stress
Organizational Behavior and Thoughts
Personality
Perception
Attitude Formation and Behavior
Power
Politics in the Office and on the Field
Managing Conflict
Negotiation
Collaboration Conflict Skills
Stress
Learning Aids

Chapter 9. Team Development
Importance of Teamwork to Performance
Group Performance Model
Group Structure
Group Process
Stages of Group Development and Leadership Styles
Getting to Better Meetings
Learning Aids

Chapter 10. Communicating for Results
Understanding the Importance of Good Communication
Using Organizational Communication
Using Interpersonal Communication
Using the Channels
Sending Messages
Receiving Messages
Responding to Messages
Dealing With Emotions and Criticism
Learning Aids

Chapter 11. Motivating to Win
Motivation and Performance
Content-Based Motivation Theories
Process-Based Motivation Theories
Reinforcement Theory
Putting Theory to Work Within the Motivational Process and Motivating Yourself
Learning Aids

Chapter 12. Leading to Victory
Leadership
Behavior of Effective Leaders
Contemporary Behavioral Perspectives
Situational Leadership Theories and Models
Getting to Your Personal Style of Leadership
Learning Aids

Part V. Controlling

Chapter 13. Controlling Quality, Financials, Productivity and Managing People
Quality and Control Systems
Control Process
Frequency of Controls
Financial Controls
Managing People
Managing Problem Employees
Productivity
Learning Aids

Chapter 14. Facilities and Events Management
Sport Facilities and Event Management
Sport Facilities Management
Sport Event Management
Planning and Controlling Sports
Sales Forecasting Techniques
Scheduling Tools
Time Management
Learning Aids

Afterword: The Future of Sport Management
Appendix: Careers in Sport Management

Robert N. Lussier, PhD, is a professor emeritus of management at the birthplace of basketball, Springfield College, where more than one-third of the students compete in intercollegiate athletic teams. He has taught undergraduate and graduate sport management students for more than 30 years. He has also supervised sport internships and serves as an advisor for sport management research projects.

Lussier was an intercollegiate cross country and track athlete and has coached at the college, high school, and youth levels. He is a prolific writer with more than 500 publications, including articles in top refereed journals, with more than 11,000 Google Scholar citations. Over two million people globally have used his textbooks, earning him an unsurpassed national and international reputation as an author. Dr. Lussier is the founder of Publish Don’t Perish (www.publishdonotperish.com). Through his book Publish Don’t Perish: The Top Secrets to Get Published and workshops, he has helped hundreds of institutions and individuals in more than 80 countries get published.

Dr. Lussier also provides consulting services to a wide array of commercial and nonprofit organizations. In fact, some of the material in the book was developed for such clients as Baystate Medical Center, Coca-Cola, Friendly’s, National Institute of Financial Education, Mead, Monsanto, Smith & Wesson, the Social Security Administration, the Visiting Nurse Association, and YMCAs.

Dr. Lussier holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Salem State College, master’s degrees in business and education from Suffolk University, and a doctorate in management from the University of New Haven.

David C. Kimball, PhD, is a professor of management and the director of the sport management program at Elms College. He teaches sport management and sport marketing courses. As coordinator of the sport management internship program, he has placed many students in internships that offer real-world experience.

Kimball has helped develop and promote sporting events for organizations such as Junior Achievement and the JCC Maccabi Games, and he coaches and supervises Maccabi athletes each summer. He has an expansive network of friends and acquaintances in the sport management field; many of the case studies in this book arose from these relationships.

Ethics in sport management
Forces for change in sport
Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) and the NCAA
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All ancillaries are free to adopting instructors through HKPropel.

Instructor guide. Lussier and Kimball have personally prepared chapter and lecture outlines; definitions of key terms; exercise ideas and suggestions for classroom use; and sample answers and solutions to the Time-Out and application exercises, review and discussion questions, and case study questions.

Test package. Contains over 1,200 questions in true-false, multiple-choice, and essay formats. The files may be downloaded for integration with a learning management system or printed for use as paper-based tests. Instructors may also create their own customized quizzes or tests from the test bank questions to assign to students directly through HKPropel. Multiple-choice and true-false questions are automatically graded, and instructors can review student scores in the platform.

Chapter quizzes. Contains ready-made quizzes (10 questions each) to assess student comprehension of the most important concepts in each chapter. Each quiz may be downloaded or assigned to students directly through HKPropel. The chapter assessments are automatically graded, and instructors can review student scores in the platform.

Presentation package. Features more than 390 PowerPoint slides of text, artwork, and tables from the book that can be used for class discussion and presentation. The slides in the presentation package can be used directly within PowerPoint or printed to make handouts for students. Instructors can easily add, modify, and rearrange the order of the slides.

Instructors also receive access to all student materials in HKPropel. For Applied Sport Management Skills, this includes unique learning activities and exercises that give students opportunities for applied learning.