ADMINISTRATION IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT MANAGEMENT

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ADMINISTRATION IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT
MANAGEMENT
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CHAPTER 1THE NATURE OF ADMINISTRATION

• Case Study 1
• What are the reasons Jane is an Athletic
  Director?
• Describe Janes philosophy as an Athletic
  Director?
• What questions should Manuel be asking himself
  before applying?
• What questions would you ask yourself before
  applying?

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Terminology

1. Management
2. Director
3. Coordinator
4. Supervisor
5. Sports Management
6. Chairperson
7. Wellness Center Director

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Manager

• Is interchangeable with administrator.
• One who directs a business or enterprise.
• One who controls resources within an
  organization.
• Example ______________

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Coordinator

• The person who has the responsibility to
  supervise and direct other professionals or
  individuals part of the organization.
• Example ______________

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Director

• A person who manages the affairs of the
  organization.
• Example ______________

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Supervisor

• A person who has the direct authority over other
  individuals within the organization.
• Example ______________

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Chairperson/Department Head

• The person that leads the academic faculty in a
  given area.
• Example ______________

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Sport Management

• Is a field of education and business
  professionals working in the business aspect of
  sport.
• A sport manager is an individual with a
  combination of skills related to planning,
  organizing, directing, controlling, and
  budgeting.
• Example ______________

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Wellness Program Director

• This person has the responsibility to direct and
  supervise programs that promote the health and
  well-being of the population.
• Example ______________

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ADVANTAGES VS DISADVANTAGES

• Pressure, limited time, and long work hours.
• Loss of personal contact with students.
• Reduce time for research.
• Pressure of responsibilities.
• Changes in association with faculty.
• Public scrutiny of decision.
• Lack of job security.
• Loss of personal time.

• Financial rewards.
• Professional prestige.
• Social prestige.
• Professional challenge.
• Personal power.
• Professional achievements.
• Effect changes.
• Advancement.

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ADMINISTRATOR/MANAGEMENT/DIRECTOR

• Many people dont plan to fail, they fail to plan!

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Philosophies
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Philosophical Foundation

• Idealism-Value and truth are the
  foundations for life and remain static.
• (Sportsmanship is an example of high
  standards)
• Realism- Reality is based on science and
  one would believe in nature and its law. (Proof
  and documentation would be important)
• Pragmatism-Reality must be experienced
  because the world is ever changing. (What works
  is valued)Existentialism- Reality lies in the
  individual. (self-determination)
• Eclecticism- Selected approaches from
  others. (Variety)

• Morality-The quality of being in accord with
  standards of right or good conduct.
• Ethics-Knowing the difference between right and
  wrong and choosing to do so.
• 1. Golden Rules
• 2. Utilitarian Principle
• 3. Kants Categorical Imperative
• 4. Professional Ethic
• 5. The Television Test.

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Types of Administrators

• 1. Laissez-faire (let alone)- allows the
  organization to run itself.
• Disadvantages
• a. Leader keeps a low profile.
• b. No positive leadership
• c. Poorly prepared professional
• d. Promotes weakness in personnel,
  and less productivity.
• Advantages
• a. Young, energetic professional
  can come in and make positive
• changes, innovative changes.
• b. Seasoned and productive
  professional can initiate new program.

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Types of Administrator

• Autocratic or Authoritarian (a boss not a
  leader)
• Disadvantages
• a. Less communication and little debate.
• b. Individual is limited in power to
  contribute
• c. Decisions made without facts or an
  investigation.(Shirley Sherrod)
• d. Policies are as good as the leader.
• e. Mistakes are usually big ones. (Shirley
  Sherrod)
• Advantages
• a. Requires a higher degree of uniformity.
• b. Complete control.
• c. Promote efficiency.
• d. Get the job done because the buck stops
  here mentality.
• e. Leader is usually experienced.

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Types of Administrator

• Democratic (equal and fair)
• Disadvantages
• a. Promotes inefficiency with slow
  procedures (committees).
• b. Promotes biases within the
  organization.
• c. Requires group agreement before moving
  on.
• Advantages
• a. Everyone has an opportunity to
  contribute.
• b. Esprit de Corps spirit of cooperation.
• c. Group effort precedes most decisions.
• d. Less mistakes made.

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Some one must lead the way, the rest will follow.
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Leadership Qualities and Skills

• People skills
• Communication skills
• Creativity, flexibility, and vision.
• Mental quickness.
• Reliability and courage.
• Enthusiasm and vitality.
• Professionalism.
• Technological skills.
• Diversity skills.
• Global view of the world.
• Adaptability to environment.
• Talented (quality).

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Athletic Director versus Physical Education Chair

• Duties review on page 13

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ADMINISTRATION

• WHAT IS YOUR ADMINISTRATION PHILOSOPHY?

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LEARNING TASKS 1

• 1. Student will develop their own administrators
  philosophy. Submit a full one page typed, double
  spaced paper.
• 2. Select your philosophical foundation to
  describe your administrators philosophy.
• Describe your beliefs based on those foundations.
• Questions
• What is your administration
  position.
• What type of administrator will you be
  and why?
• What are the most important aspects of
  being an administrator?
• Your job as an administrator would be to
  do what? Why?

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CHAPTER 1 REVIEW

• I. Terminology
• 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of being an
• administrator
• 3. Philosophical Foundation
• 4. Types of Administrators
• 5. Leadership qualities
• 6. Leadership Duties

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Dr. Martin Luther King

• The task of the leader is to get his people from
  where they are to where they have not been.