scholarly journals Experience-Based Leadership Development and Professional Sport Organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Frawley ◽  
Daniel Favaloro ◽  
Nico Schulenkorf
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Competitive Sport ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Formal Leadership

In recent years, there has been a significant interest around leadership development practices within the field of management. Leadership development is particularly important within the highly competitive sport industry, where leadership performance is under constant and ever-increasing scrutiny. For sport organizations, strong leadership can be a source of significant competitive advantage, and hence, increased focus on leadership and investment into the development of talent has occurred. However, there has been a surprising lack of scholarly research into leadership and the associated processes within the sport management field, particularly from an Australian perspective. This paper addresses this gap as it examines the nature of experience-based leadership development practices within three of Australia’s leading professional sport organizations. Following a qualitative multicase study approach, the thematic analysis of 15 in-depth semistructured interviews with members of the senior executive of each case organization suggested that the national sport organizations placed significant emphasis on experience-based opportunities as a way of developing their workforce. Via the adoption of McCall’s experience-based leadership development framework, four main themes emerged: the importance of experience-based opportunities for leadership development; leadership development through involvement and exposure to experiences; networking opportunities gained from experienced-based exposure; and the relationship between on-the-job experience and formal leadership education. These findings extend our knowledge of current leadership development and practices implemented in national sport organizations and highlight the importance of effective leadership within highly competitive sport markets. Based on these findings, implications are provided for current practice illustrating the benefits that an experience-based approach to leadership development within sport organizations can have.

Interns in Professional Sport: An Investigation of Gender Parity on the Job

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Cuneen ◽  
M. Joy Sidwell
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Job Benefits ◽  
One Year ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Big Four

Internships permit sport management students to link classroom learning to the professional environment. Since internships provide students with opportunities to learn on-the-job and test their skills in the marketplace, the experiences should be uniformly beneficial to all students regardless of gender. This study was conducted to describe internship work conditions (i.e., opportunities to perform in essential marketplace functions) for male and female sport management interns assigned to ‘Big Four’ professional sport organizations. Participants were 74 sport industry professionals who supervised a total of 103 interns over a one-year period. A X2 Test of Independence found that male and female interns working in professional sport had comparable opportunities to perform and learn on the job. Differences in opportunity, hiring practices, and on-the-job benefits emerged primarily as a function of job specialization (e.g., operations, marketing, venue management), league/association, or gender of the internship supervisor rather than gender of the interns.

A Foot in the Door: An Examination of Professional Sport Internship Job Announcements

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Liz Sattler ◽  
Rebecca Achen
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Preparation ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Student Preparedness ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Job Postings

The sport management internship has been deemed a critical component of students’ academic preparation, as well as a foot in the door for many students seeking full-time employment after graduation. The number of sport management programs has grown in recent years, and the field itself remains highly competitive. Thus, it is increasingly important for sport management programs to help prepare their students for the internship hiring process. Scholarship in this area has largely focused on student perceptions of their internship experience and employer perceptions of student preparedness. But to prepare students for internship experiences in the sport industry, it is essential for faculty to understand the key skills that are sought by industry practitioners making hiring decisions, as well as the administrative requirements included. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the nature of professional sport industry internship job postings in the United States by examining the content of online announcements during a 6-month period. The results indicated that digital content, sales, and operations internships were the most highly sought positions, while basic computer skills, communication skills (both oral and written), and the ability to withstand long hours were the most commonly desired skills.

Creating Ethical Decision Makers: The Influence of Education on Perceptions of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Taylor ◽  
Gareth J. Jones ◽  
Kristy McCray ◽  
Robin Hardin
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Power Differential ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Management Students ◽  
The Relationship

The sport industry is ripe for issues of sexual harassment/assault due to the high value placed on masculine characteristics and the power differential between male leaders/coaches and female subordinates/athletes. This culture permeates sport organizations, as issues of sexual harassment/assault committed by athletes and coaches/administrators are commonplace and have recently been mishandled, raising questions about effective education. This study examined the relationship between education on sexual harassment/assault and the endorsement of rape myths by sport management students. Results indicate that training on sexual harassment/assault in sport management classrooms is low and is potentially ineffective at curbing rape myth acceptance, suggesting current curricula are insufficient. These findings have both theoretical and practical contributions related to how sport management departments can prepare future professionals to change the culture of sport.

Bridging the Gap: U.S. Sport Managers on Barriers to Industry–Academia Research Collaboration

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noni Zaharia ◽  
Anastasios Kaburakis
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Research Involvement ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
The U.S

Collaboration between industry and academia is a subject of great interest to sport management academics and sport industry leaders in the United States. However, there is a lack of research regarding barriers to sport industry–academia collaborations and bridging the gap between sport management research and practitioners. The aim of the study was to explore trends in collaboration barriers among various research involvement levels of U.S. sport firms with sport management academia. Data were gathered from 303 sport managers working for U.S. sport companies. Results indicated several barriers for research collaborations between the U.S. sport industry and academia. Such barriers include transactional barriers, sport industry subsectors, sport organizations’ location, and age and education level of respondents.

scholarly journals Women and Leadership Development in Australian Sport Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 568-578
Author(s):  
Marissa Banu-Lawrence ◽  
Stephen Frawley ◽  
Larena Hoeber
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Women And Leadership ◽  
Sports Industry ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Development Processes

There has been growing interest in gender diversity and the leadership development of women in recent years within the broader field of management studies. Understanding leadership development processes is important for the sport industry, in which organizations are becoming increasingly professional and commercially focused. Despite the increased attention on gender diversity and leadership development within the sport industry to date, the scope and application of organizational gender and leadership development theory within an Australian sport context has been limited. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore the leadership development practices adopted by key stakeholders of the Australian sports industry, with the intention to uncover how they impact the role of women in different organizations. Specifically, the research investigated the practices of three organizations that have a major stake in Australian professional sport.

scholarly journals Economic View and Strategic Management View toward Understanding Outsourcing in Amateur Sport

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungbum Lee
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
The Body ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Intercollegiate Sport ◽  
Amateur Sport ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Outsourcing Strategies

Outsourcing as a strategic business decision has been a prevalent business practice in sport industry, and as a result has been receiving increasing academic attention by scholars in sport management. In many cases, the academic attention has been focused on multi-billion dollar hyper-commercialized sport industry, like professional and intercollegiate sport in the U.S. However, outsourcing has infiltrated the world of amateur sport, for instance youth sports programs (YSP), too. In spite of a growing use of outsourcing as a viable business strategy within a community based sport setting, efforts to understand outsourcing in amateur sport has so far gone unheeded in academia. Accordingly, this study examined outsourcing YSP by city- owned recreation centers (CORC). The motivation of outsourcing and the risk of outsourcing were analyzed using a multiple case study approach. The results of this study argue that combination of both economic and strategic management views are effective ways to understand outsourcing strategies in an amateur sport setting. The findings of this study provide both theoretical and practical implications. Furthermore, to contribute to the body of literature, the findings of this study are compared with previous sport management outsourcing literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of outsourcing.

Professional Sport League Assessment of Sport Management Curriculum

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Petersen ◽  
David Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Sport Sociology ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Sport League ◽  
Management Curriculum

Undergraduate sport management curriculum continues to be debated amongst this discipline’s educators. Curricular content impacts professional sport organizations as program graduates become employees. This study gathered the input of human resource professionals from NFL, MLB, and NBA franchises regarding curricular topics via an existing, modified questionnaire. The questionnaire included a five-point scale assessment of 61 curricular topics. A 34.8% response rate was proportionally distributed between the leagues. An ANOVA of means for ten curricular areas revealed significant differences with the following rank order: Field Experience 4.38; Communication 4.23; Legal Aspects 4.02; Ethics 3.98; Management and Leadership 3.97; Marketing 3.96; Economics 3.68; Budget and Finance 3.59; Governance 3.25; and Socio-Cultural Aspects 3.25. An ANOVA of topics revealed seven significant between-league differences including: Sport Sociology, Ethics, Market Shares/Ratings, Business Writing, Labor Relations, Stadium/Arena Economics, and Risk Management/Liability. These results can inform the development or modification of curricula to better prepare students for professional sport needs.

Dead Spaces: Sport Venues and Police Stops in a Major League, Upper Midwestern City in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Gidon S. Jakar ◽  
Kiernan O. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Related Activity ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Sport Venues ◽  
Midwestern City

Attention by sport management researchers and practitioners toward the societal externalities of professional sport franchises and venues has increased recently. This study asserts that while sport organizations are very active in this regard, there remain several issues that have not received much attention in the sport management literature nor by sport organizations themselves. Criminal activity, or the perception of criminal activity, at and near sport venues is one of these issues. The negative binominal regression analysis of police stops in Minneapolis revealed that police stops were greater within a quarter and half a mile of Minneapolis professional sport venues on event days. Furthermore, during nonevent days, the venues can be urban “dead spaces” and the design of venues in urban areas should address the internal and external amenities of the sport venues and the potential increase in crime and police-related activity on days with and without events.

Nature and Characteristics of the Sport Industry and its Current Trends Impacting the Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Amber A. Ditizio
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Research Demands

Global competition for fans and other stakeholders have caused increased pressures to maintain sport organizations' power and influence through e-commerce and social media. The ever evolving nature of sport managing research demands a reexamination of some of the major trends in the discipline that are impacted directly/indirectly by electronic mediation and its technology, especially social media. Although there are numerous trends that are occurring in sport management as a discipline, but this study concentrates on the role of ecommerce within organizations. The major trends examined are commercialization of sport, the role of mass communication to appeal to the needs of users, the need of engagement by fans, and the social needs for sports to deal with the epidemic of physical inactivity of the populace.

Nature and Characteristics of the Sport Industry and Its Current Trends Impacting the Industry

2018 ◽  
pp. 284-300
Author(s):  
Amber A. Ditizio
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Research Demands

Global competition for fans and other stakeholders have caused increased pressures to maintain sport organizations' power and influence through e-commerce and social media. The ever evolving nature of sport managing research demands a reexamination of some of the major trends in the discipline that are impacted directly/indirectly by electronic mediation and its technology, especially social media. Although there are numerous trends that are occurring in sport management as a discipline, but this study concentrates on the role of ecommerce within organizations. The major trends examined are commercialization of sport, the role of mass communication to appeal to the needs of users, the need of engagement by fans, and the social needs for sports to deal with the epidemic of physical inactivity of the populace.

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