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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Management vs. Leadership

• Planning and Budgeting
• Establish detailed steps and timetables for
  achieving needed results, then allocate the
  resources necessary to make it happen.
• Organizing and Staffing
• Establish some structure for accomplishing plan
  requirements, staff that structure with
  individuals, delegate responsibility and
  authority for carrying out the plan, provide
  policies and procedures to help guide people, and
  create methods or systems to monitor
  implementation.
• Controlling and Problem Solving
• Monitor results, identify deviations from plan,
  then plan and organize to solve those problems.

• Establishing Direction
• Develop a vision of the future and strategies for
  producing the changes needed to achieve that
  vision.
• Aligning People
• Communicate direction in words and deeds to all
  those whose cooperation may be needed, so as to
  influence the creation of teams and coalitions
  that understand the vision and strategies and
  that accept their validity.
• Motivating and Inspiring
• Energize people to overcome major political,
  bureaucratic, and resource barriers to change by
  satisfying basic, but often unfulfilled, human
  needs.

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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
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Sport Governance Organizations

• Professional sports MLB NBA NFL WNBA NHL
  MLS PGA LPGA ATP 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 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)
• 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
• Salary caps (actually are payroll caps)
• 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