The Management Process

Instructional Objectives and Competencies Be Achieved

After reading this chapter the student should be able to

Outline the Physical Activity and Sport Continuum and define sport management .

Explain why the study of management is important to the physical educator, athletic and activities director, athletic and activities director, or sport manager.

Identify the skills, functions, and qualifications essential for effective physical education and sport management.

Enumerate the major roles and tasks of a manager in a physical education and sport setting.

Outline the decision-making/problem solving process.

Describe and contrast the traditional and modern views of leadership.

Discuss a modern Total Quality Management.

Appreciate the advantages and problems associated with a democratic and participatory management.

Identify issues relevant to modern physical education and sport management.

This text is concerned with the study of management as it is applied to the domain of physical education and sport. Like other profession, the way organizations are managed is continuously changing or being reframed. Information technology, globalization, workplace diversity, and the building of strategic partnerships are just some of the change agents affecting contemporary management. Management theories, concepts, skills, functions, roles, programs, and principles, however, still cut across the expansive arena of the PASC and the primary pocus of the text remains the management of the delivery systems of school physical education, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and recreational sports, and sport in the public and private domain. Management is crucial ingredient in any physical education or sports program and must be soundly implemented of that program is to be conducted in an effectives, efficient, and meaningful fashion. Management involves the interaction between those who administer and those who participate in the physical education and sporting process. It involves, but is not limited to, such important matters as human resources, long-range planning, programming, facilities, budget, legal liability, marketing, and public relations. This text explores these managerial dimensions and examines ways in which they can be effectively and efficiently employed.