Organizational Behaviour in Sport

James Skinner, Bob Stewart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781136476747
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Business

What makes a sport enterprise successful? How can managers working in sport improve organizational effectiveness through strategic behaviour management? This comprehensive and accessible textbook addresses these important questions and examines the theories that underpin organizational analysis in sport. Helping both students and practitioners to understand the different types of behaviour that occur within a sports enterprise, it also demonstrates how to develop ways of managing behaviour more effectively for the benefit of all stakeholders.

The book explores behaviour on individual, interpersonal, group and whole-organization levels, and presents an evidence-based framework for analysis built around key concepts such as:

• Change and culture

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• Leadership

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• Motivation, rewards and incentives

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• Power and influence

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• Conflict, disputes and grievances

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• Equity, diversity and inclusion.

With international case studies, learning objectives, review questions and guides to further reading included in every chapter, no other textbook develops critical skills or an awareness of ethical issues in such detail and depth. Organizational Behaviour in Sport is essential reading for all students and practitioners working in sport, leisure or recreation management.

Index

Page numbers in italics denote figures, those in bold denote tables.

absenteeism: and job satisfaction 129; and stress 193

accompanying mentoring technique 87

achievement motivation 119–20

active listening 161–2

adjourning stage of group development 137

adrenalin 192

advancement see promotion

affective incentives of volunteering 79

affiliation motivation 120

AFL see Australian Football League (AFL)

age-based stereotyping 111

ageing workforces 233

age limits 186

aggression, workplace 192, 196–201; bullying and harassment 140–2, 196–7, 198; case study 198–201; Harm Model of 198; violence 196, 198

agreeableness 101, 102, 168

Air Force Aviation Psychology Program 56

Alliger, G.M. 85

anticipatory socialization 65

anti-doping regulations 183

applicant selection methods 57–8

arbitration 205

Athens Olympics (2004) 209

Atkinson, John W. 119–20

attitudes: and perception 108 see also job satisfaction

Aubrey, R. 87–8

Australian Football League (AFL) 80–1, 183, 198

Australian Open Tennis Championships 124

Australian Sports Commission 190

authority: delegated 30–1, 76, 120; hierarchy of 24; limited authority tactic in negotiation 227

authority motivation 120

autocratic leadership 168

autonomy 117; and laissez-faire leadership 168–70; self-directed teams 146

avatars 160–1

avoiding approach to conflict 206

Babe Ruth 15

baby boomers 233

Bach, Thomas 209

bargaining see negotiation

Bartz, Carol 52

basketball 21, 69–70, 175–6

Bass, Bernard M. 167, 172–3, 174

Beckham, David 197, 201

behavioural component of job satisfaction 127

behavioural guidelines ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Introduction: Organizational behaviour in sport
• Part A Contextual, structural and operational features of sport enterprises
• Part B Job-task processes in sport enterprises
• Part C Employee traits, dispositions and behaviours
• Part D Communication systems and social processes
• Part E Managing problematic structures, operations and behaviours
• Part F Power, control and change
• Index