MANAGEMENT

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MANAGEMENT
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Managerial Functions or Practices

• Communicating
• Seek information
• Inform
• Ask questions
• Answer questions
• Consult
• Delegate
• Encourage suggestions for improvement

• Planning and organizing
• Set goals
• Establish short-term strategies
• Allocate fiscal and human resources
• Clarify roles and responsibilities
• Set deadlines
• Identify and conduct assessments

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Managerial Functions or Practices

• Decision-making
• Monitor operations
• Stay informed
• Measure and reward incremental progress
• Identify, analyze, and solve problems
• Act decisively based on facts and data

• Mentoring and supporting
• Facilitate success
• Encourage and praise
• Show empathy
• Motivate
• Help resolve conflict and problems
• Build networks
• Reward

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Sport Management

• The study of the theoretical and applied aspects
  of leading, planning, organizing, staffing,
  funding, and conducting sporting events
• The multi-billion dollar sports industry includes
  sports participation, sports entertainment, and
  sporting products.

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Sport Governance Organizations

• Professional sports MLB NBA NFL WNBA NHL
  MLS PGA LPGA PTA WTA NASCAR
• Intercollegiate athletics NCAA NAIA NJCAA
  conferences such as the Big 12
• NCAA Division I organizational chart
  http//www.ncaa.org/wps/portal
• International sports IOC AAF USOC

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Management Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics

• Compliance with NCAA rules, conference rules, and
  institutional rules dealing with academics,
  eligibility, recruiting, scholarships,
  competition, drug testing, gambling, etc.
• Finances funding programs with increasing
  expenses (arms race relative to facilities and
  coaches salaries) and
• Concern with emphasis on winning and
  loss of educational and ethical values
• Public relations and media relations

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Management Issues in Professional Sports

• Collective bargaining (unions)
• Representative for all current players (minimum
  salaries pension plans)
• Player grievances and arbitration
• Playing conditions
• Drug policies
• Labor-management relations
• Federal law

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National Football League Drug Policy

• Mandates a 4-game suspension without pay for the
  first steroids offense
• Mandates a year-long suspension without pay for
  the second steroids offense
• Requires the automatic forfeiture of a prorated
  portion of a players signing bonus if he is
  suspended for violating the steroid or
  substance-abuse policy
• Will randomly test 10 (out of 53 players) players
  each week during the pre-season, regular season,
  and post-season.
• Enhances the unpredictability of the year-round
  testing schedule to address the perception of
  gaps in the testing periods
• Will test players for EPO through a urine
  specimen
• Provides at least 500,000 to the UCLA Olympic
  testing lab and other researchers for the
  development of new testing methods for human
  growth hormone
• Required no suspension until the second violation
  for use of street drugs, such as marijuana or
  cocaine

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National Basketball Association Drug Policy

• Tests urine for performance-enhancing drugs and
  amphetamines
• Tests randomly each player four times a season
• Mandates a 10-game suspension without pay for the
  first steroids or performance-enhancing drugs
  offense
• Mandates a 25-game suspension without pay for the
  second steroids or performance-enhancing drugs
  offense
• Mandates a one-year suspension without pay for
  the third steroids or performance-enhancing drugs
  offense
• Mandates disqualification for the fourth steroids
  or performance-enhancing drugs offense

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Major League Baseball Drug Policy

• Tests urine for performance-enhancing drugs and
  amphetamines
• Will test players once in spring training and at
  least once during the season
• Subjects players to year-round random testing
• Mandates a 50-game suspension without pay for the
  first offense
• Mandates a 100-game suspension without pay for
  the second offense
• Mandates a lifetime suspension for the third
  offense, although a player can seek reinstatement
  after two years
• Requires counseling for the first positive for
  the use of amphetamines plus six additional tests

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National Hockey League Drug Policy

• Subject to up to two "no-notice" tests every
  year, with at least one such test conducted on a
  team-wide basis
• Mandates, for the first positive test, a 20-game
  suspension without pay and mandatory referral to
  the League's Substance Abuse/Behavioral Health
  Program for evaluation, education, and possible
  treatment
• Mandates, for the second positive test, a 60-game
  suspension without pay
• Mandates, for the third positive test, a
  permanent suspension.
• A player receiving a third positive test and a
  permanent suspension from play in the League
  will, however, be eligible to apply for
  reinstatement after two years.
• Scope is limited to performance-enhancing
  substances

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Management Issues in Professional Sports

• Free agency http//www.nba.com/cavaliers/features/
  off-season_central.html
• Salary caps http//www.nba.com/news/cap_040713.htm
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• Debt service revenue from stadiums and arenas,
  especially luxury suites, club seating, naming
  rights, media rights. parking, concessions,
  programs, and other revenues

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Potential Advantages of Becoming a Sport Manager

• Opportunity to affect change and improvement
• Financial rewards
• Professional prestige and status (ego
  fulfillment)
• Social prestige and association with others
• Personal power
• Professional challenge
• Opportunities for professional advancement

David Stern NBA Commissioner
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Potential Disadvantages of Becoming a Sport
Manager

• Long work hours
• Relentless time demands
• Responsibility for the performance of others
• Pressures from scrutiny of your decisions or work
• Lack of personal time for friends and family
• Lack of job security

Billy BeaneVice President, General Manager
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Competencies of Sport Managers

• Budgeting
• Communicating effectively
• Complying with organizational rules and laws
• Decision-making skills
• Financing (corporate and private funds)

• Hiring, supervising, and evaluating staff
• Managing daily operations
• Marketing and promotions
• Organizing and managing time
• Risk management
• Setting long- and short-range goals