Managing Sports Organizations: Responsibility for Performance

Managing Sport Organizations, 2e is a newly updated and comprehensive introduction to the themes and elements surrounding sport management. The book teaches management theory and principles in a coherent manner, helping to reinforce these concepts for students in schools of business, and serving to introduce them to students in other school settings (kinesiology, exercise science, sport science). The authors introduce important industry segment information chapter by chapter, allowing students to wed theory and application throughout. An online Instructor’s Manual and a Test Bank are available as well.

Managing Sport Organizations, 2e is a newly updated and comprehensive introduction to the themes and elements surrounding sport management. The book teaches management theory and principles in a coherent manner, helping to reinforce these concepts for students in schools of business, and serving to introduce them to students in other school settings (kinesiology, exercise science, sport science). The authors introduce important industry segment information chapter by chapter, allowing students to wed theory and application throughout. An online Instructor’s Manual and a Test Bank are available as well.

· Important industry segment information is introduced chapter by chapter, allowing students to wed theory and application throughout
· Effectively weaves sport industry issues with fundamental management theories and practices
· Provides informative introductions to all fundamental aspects of sport management- Leadership, Information Technology, Media, Facility management, HR and much more

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A number of North American colleges and universities are creating sport management programs that emphasize management learning and organizational issues. This textbook was written for use in introductory classes in such programs. Chapters cover global licensing and social responsibility, information technology and sports media, decision-making, strategic planning, operational planning, organization design, motivation and leadership, human resource management, and managing change in collegiate athletics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Julie Siciliano, Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at Western New England College, holds B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Western New England College and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on board of director involvement in strategic management, the relationship between strategic planning and organizational performance, and the use of strategy scorecards for tracking strategy implementation progress. Her work has been published in Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Organization Management Journal, Journal of General Management, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Education for Business, and Business Horizons. She is author of the Board's Role in the Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations (Garland Publishing) and is co-author of Strategize! Experiential Exercises in Strategic Management, 3rd ed. (Cengage Publishing), Management: Responsibility for Performance (McGraw-Hill) and Sport Management (South-Western College Publishing and Elsevier Publishers). Her research has been funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation through Yale University's Program on Nonprofit Organization, the Filene Institute through the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and from the Institute of North American Trade and Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Before entering academia, Dr. Siciliano held marketing management positions at Worthington Compressors, Inc., in West Springfield, MA, and in Buffalo, NY.