Sport Management Must Show Social Concern as It Develops Tenable Theory

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earle F. Zeigler
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Online Service ◽  
Managerial Leadership

Today sport and all other social institutions (e.g., religion, politics, finance) are confronted with the need to demonstrate that they are worthwhile and responsible. Sport managers should understand what sport’s status is and how and why such standing occurred. Difficult decisions, often ethical in nature, will have to be made as members of the sport management societies worldwide strive to continue developing this profession and discipline. These professionals need to decide to what extent they wish to live up to the broad ideals of the programs being promoted by public, semipublic, and private agencies for people of all types and ages. Those involved with professional preparation and scholarly endeavor urgently need a theory and a disciplinary model for administrative or managerial leadership of sport on a gradually improving, sound academic basis. Practitioners need an online service that provides them with scholarly applied findings as they seek to serve in the behaviorally oriented environment of today’s world.

Professional Preparation in Sport Management: An Empirical Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig M. Ross ◽  
Lynn M. Jamieson ◽  
Sarah J. Young
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Professional Preparation

Some Insights on Meaningful Internships in Sport Management: A Cooperative Education Approach

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norm Chouinard
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Cooperative Education ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Program Characteristics ◽  
The University ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Sport management programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels have proliferated over the past 2 decades. In most if not all of these programs, the internship course component has been identified as a vital element in professional preparation programs. Teacher/coordinators of sport management programs that include an internship component must be highly skilled to meet student needs. Equally important in the effective delivery of these programs is the need for the university to fully endorse the value of student internships through proper financial, technical, and human resources. The purpose of this paper is to examine, through a review of the literature, the goals and objectives of student internships, program characteristics of meaningful internships, and future implications for teacher/coordinators of sport management programs. Professors of sport management must act as change agents to further enhance the quality of student internships in professional preparation programs.

The Bible and Our Social Institutions

1973 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-348
Author(s):  
J. Gerald Janzen
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
The Bible

The Bible's contribution to our social concern can be powerfully clarifying and intensely effective; but this will depend on its not being applied immediately up against this concern and its objects.

Sport Management Curriculums: A Descriptive Study of the Current Status

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Craig M. Ross ◽  
Sarah J. Young
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
National Study ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Future Direction

This paper examines the findings of a national study on professional preparation in sport management. A review of literature revealed a lack of research and a need for more studies that clearly define the current status and future direction for sport management curriculums. Through a content analysis approach, this study investigated 147 academic institutions offering sport management curriculums. Specifically, the examined philosophical and primary emphasis of each curriculum, internship requirements, employment opportunities, sport management courses and curriculum resources. Implications of the results are discussed along with recommendations for further study involving professional preparation in sport management.

Sport Management Careers: A Descriptive Analysis

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik K.M. Kjeldsen
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Job Level ◽  
Preparation Period ◽  
First Job ◽  
Management Career ◽  
Shed Light

This study utilized alumni of one sport management graduate program in an effort to investigate career paths in sport management. A representative sample of 126 alumni was selected from a population of 251 students who had graduated over a 10-year period. A total of 69 usable returns were received, for a response rate of 54.8%. Specific points during the professional, preparation period and during the working career were examined as benchmarks in the career path. The number of alumni maintaining jobs in the field at each benchmark shed light on career retention and on the factors contributing to attrition. The five benchmarks selected were entry into the graduate program, exit from the program, the internship, first job, and final job. Salary at each job level and satisfaction were measured in an effort to better understand the nature of a sport management career. The analysis was differentiated by sex and by the various subfields in the sport management profession.

Norms for family size in underdeveloped areas

1963 ◽  
Vol 159 (974) ◽  
pp. 220-245 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Early Age ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
General Proposition ◽  
The Family ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Very High

It is a commonplace observation that fertility is high in the so-called underdeveloped societies. Sometimes this leads to the erroneous view that their fertility is limited only by what is biologically possible so that birth rates reach a mythologically high natural level. In this idealized view free and unrestrained sexual unions beginning at an early age produce very high fertility as an incidental result without deliberate intent and without much individual or social concern about family size. A more plausible general proposition is that reproduction, whether at high or low levels, is so important to the family and to society everywhere that its level is more or less controlled by cultural norms about family size and such related matters as marriage, timing of intercourse, and abortion. In each society the cultural norms about these vital matters are consistent with social institutions in which they are deeply embedded. Changes in fertility are unlikely without prior or, at least, simultaneous changes in these institutions.

Female Students’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment in the Sport Management Internship Setting

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Robin Hardin ◽  
Elizabeth A. Taylor ◽  
Emily Sleadd
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
Management Professionals

Internships provide professional preparation for aspiring sport management professionals, because they allow for professional and personal growth, as well as for being exposed to a professional work environment. Unfortunately, part of the exposure to a professional work environment also means being subjected to its negative aspects, which include sexual harassment. The purpose of this study was to examine the sexual harassment experiences of female students in a sport management internship setting. Nearly 66% of the respondents had experienced some type of sexual harassment while completing an internship. Internship satisfaction was lower for those who had experienced sexual harassment, but experiencing sexual harassment had no impact on their intent to enter the sport management profession. Sport management educators, as well as internship supervisors, must work together to create a safe and professional environment for female students.

Professional Preparation in Sport Management: An Empirical Study

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig M. Ross ◽  
Lynn M. Jamieson ◽  
Sarah J. Young
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Professional Preparation
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