SPORT ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES

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SPORT ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES
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The purpose of an Organisational Structure

• To define the manner in which the tasks of a
  sport organisation are broken down and allocated
  to employees or volunteers, the reporting
  relationships among these role holders, and the
  coordinating and controlling of mechanisms used
  within the sport organisation
• (Slack, 1997, p.6)

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The purpose of an Organisational Structure

• Optimal Organisation Arrangement
• Clear consistent role responsibility
• Understand formal lines of authority/hierarchy
• Organisational communication
• Overall picture of the organisation

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Characteristics of Sport Organisational
Structures

• Sport organisational structures tend to be based
  on a conservative model
• president/secretary/treasure
• Complexity of the organisation
• Important to ensure organisational structures aim
  to be
• efficient
• effective
• adaptable
• flexible

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Characteristics of Organisational charts

• Provide us with four items of information
• an overall picture of the organisation
• the areas of responsibility
• the formal lines of authority
• an understanding of the hierarchy

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Types of Organisational Charts

• linear charts (authoritarian)
• pyramid charts (broader spread of
  authority)
• circular charts (diverse, non-heirarchical)

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Essential organisational components of
Australian Sporting Clubs

• Level 1 Policy Development
• Level 2 External Management
• Level 3 Internal Management
• Level 4 Supervisors
• Level 6 Workers