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Organizational Behavior in Sport Management

Eric MacIntosh Laura Burton

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Human Kinetics
07 October 2024
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management fills a gap in sport management literature by exploring the key organizational behavior topics in sport organization settings.

The text covers issues such as diversity, ethics, values, behavior, leadership, and much more.

Book Features

Organizational Behavior in Sport Management offers the following features:

- Learning objectives and discussion questions for each chapter that help students conceptualize, retain, and understand the content

- Case studies with discussion questions to help students apply the concepts from each chapter

- In the Boardroom sidebars that use real-life examples from organizations within the field to highlight key topics

The In the Boardroom sidebars reflect best practices for various levels of numerous sport organizations, affording readers a great range of applications in the sport management world.

Instructor Guide

In addition, the text has an online instructor guide that includes chapter objectives, discussion questions from the text (and their answers), discussion questions for case studies (and their answers), suggestions for integrating the case studies into lectures, links to recommended websites, assignments, class projects, essay ideas, and lists of suggested readings.

Focus of Book

Organizational Behavior in Sport Management presents classical research in organizational behavior as well as up-to-date knowledge from the field of sport management. The authors offer information on individual, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational processes that are fundamental to working within a sport organization, placing equal emphasis on what managers of sport organizations need to understand about human behavior and what each person brings to the work situation in terms of his or her own attitudes, thoughts, perceptions, and skills.

The authors emphasize empowering employees and understanding their needs and desires regarding work, as opposed to managing employees in one particular way. With this in mind, the authors discuss the roles of sport organization administrators and executives, volunteers, employees, and players and coaches of sport teams, exploring how they behave independently as well as how they interact with each other.

An Understanding of Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior in Sport Management offers a foundational and contemporary look at the inner workings of sport organizations, providing numerous real-life examples from throughout the country and grounding students in the key behavioral and managerial issues that leaders, managers, and employees in sport organizations face today. As such, this text answers the key questions of why we do what we do at work, why others behave as they do, and how our interpretation of events and behaviors is subject to our own biases. In the process, students will gain an understanding of the most important organizational behavior topics and get a glimpse of how they could successfully function in a sport organization.
By:   ,
Imprint:   Human Kinetics
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   748g
ISBN:   9781718215689
ISBN 10:   1718215681
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Part I. Organizational Behavior in Sport Organizations Chapter 1. Importance of Organizational Behavior in Sport Importance of Understanding OB Creating a People-Centered Strategy Organizations as Open Systems Acquiring Knowledge and Experience in Sport Management Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 2. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Understanding Social Identity Diversity Management and Inclusive Organizations Outcomes Associated With Diversity Management Challenges to Diversity in Sport Organizations Does Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training Work? Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 3. Ethics in Sport Organizations Ethics Developing an Ethical Environment in Sport Organizations Importance of Leadership in Developing an Ethical Environment Codes of Ethics Ethical Decision Making Ethical Guidelines in Human Resource Management Corporate Social Responsibility Future Challenges in Ethical Operations of Sport Organizations Summary Discussion Questions Part II. Managing the Individual Chapter 4. Understanding Personality and Attitudes Intelligence Understanding Personality Personality and Emotional Intelligence Cognitive Concepts in Personality Motivational Concepts in Personality Interactional Approach Attributions in Organizational Behavior Attitude Important Attitudes in Sport Organization Workplaces Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 5. Learning, Motivation, Training, and Development Learning in Sport Organizations Motivation Through Goal Setting Performance in Sport Organizations Training and Development to Enhance Individual Performance Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 6. Job Satisfaction and Design Understanding Job Satisfaction and Job Dissatisfaction Enhancing Job Satisfaction Stakeholder Satisfaction in Sport Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 7. Stress and Well-Being Causes of Stress Negative and Positive Types of Stress Stress in the Competitive Sport Environment Trauma and Stress in Sport Well-Being in the Workforce Dealing With Stress Preventing Stress From Becoming Burnout Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 8. Socialization and Integration Process of Socialization Easing New Members Into the Workforce Socialization Contexts Temporary Versus Enduring Organizations Internationalization of Sport Summary Discussion Questions Part III. Managing the Group Chapter 9. Leadership and Development History of Leadership Research Leadership Research in Sport Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 10. Decision Making Programmed Versus Nonprogrammed Decisions Rational Model of Decision Making Administrative Model of Decision Making Garbage Can Model of Decision Making Individual Decision Making Risk-Taking in the Decision-Making Process Decision-Making Challenges Group Decision Making Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 11. Effective Teamwork Overview of Teams and Teamwork Team Development Team Roles Team Effectiveness Team Cohesion Social Loafing Common Team-Related Challenges Enhancing Effectiveness for Virtual Team Collaboration Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 12. Conflict, Negotiation, and Power Conflict Negotiation Individual Types of Power Summary Discussion Questions Part IV. Managing the Organization Chapter 13. Communication in the Organization Interpersonal Communication Communicating Through Social Media Common Communication Forms Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 14. Organizational Culture Emergence of Organizational Culture Levels of Awareness Values in Their Various Forms Integrating the Employee Into the Culture OC Scholarship in Sport Summary Discussion Questions Chapter 15. Organizational Change Organizational Change in Sport Lewin’s Models: Change Management and Force Field Analysis Greiner’s Patterns of Organizational Change Sport Management Research on Organizational Change Summary Discussion Questions

Eric MacIntosh, PhD, is a professor of sport management at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He researches and teaches on various organizational behavior topics, covering concepts such as culture, leadership, satisfaction, and socialization. His principal research interests are the functioning of organizations and how a favorable culture can transmit positively internally and outwardly into the marketplace. He is well published in leading peer-reviewed sport management journals and is a member of several prominent editorial boards. He is also the coeditor of the book International Sport Management. Laura J. Burton, PhD, is a professor of sport management and head of the educational leadership department within the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include understanding leadership in organizations (particularly sport organizations) and exploring development, access, and success in leadership. Her work focuses on issues of gender in leadership contexts, specifically how stereotypes and discrimination affect women in sport leadership. She has served as the editor of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sport Management. She has been published in the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, and Sex Roles. She is coeditor of Women in Sport Leadership: Research and Practice for Change, published in 2017, and the textbook Sport Leadership in the 21st Century, published in 2014.

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