Managing Sports Organizations : Responsibility for Performance

by Covell; Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780750682381
• ISBN10: 0750682388
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Managing Sport Organizations, 2e is a newly updated and comprehensive introduction to the themes and elements surrounding sport management. The book teaches management theory and principles in a coherent manner, helping to reinforce these concepts for students in schools of business, and serving to introduce them to students in other school settings (kinesiology, exercise science, sport science). The authors introduce important industry segment information chapter by chapter, allowing students to wed theory and application throughout. An online Instructors Manual and a Test Bank are available as well. Important industry segment information is introduced chapter by chapter, allowing students to wed theory and application throughout Effectively weaves sport industry issues with fundamental management theories and practices Provides informative introductions to all fundamental aspects of sport management- finance, marketing, legal, HR, governance and so on

Table of Contents

The sport management challenge	p. 1
Globalization, ethics, and the sporting goods and athletic footwear and apparel industry	p. 50
Information technology management and the sports media	p. 82
Developing goals and school and youth sports	p. 116
Decision making and the health and fitness industry	p. 151
Strategic management and sport facilities	p. 185
Designing the organization and sport agency	p. 222
Motivation and leadership and professional league sport	p. 268
Human resource management and the tour sport industry	p. 306
Managing change in collegiate athletics	p. 352
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