Applied Sport Management Skills 2nd Edition Robert N. Lussier, David C. Kimball - Solutions

Al Dunbar can normally be found at the Springfield, Massachusetts, Jewish Community Center (JCC) teaching the fine art of playing tennis. As a coach he has a profound impact on youth. He is the father of two daughters and one son. When his girls were young, he would set up a tent on the grounds of
What is leadership and why is it important?
Based on your responses to the Self-Assessment on page 375, are you a theory X or a theory Y leader?
Name several pro athletes who are charismatic leaders and explain why.
What are the two dimensions of leadership and the four possible leadership styles?
Why do you think most sport management studies have focused on the leadership skills of coaches instead of those of athletic administrators?
Describe Phil Jackson’s (Los Angeles Lakers) leadership style in terms of the Leadership Grid. Defend your answer.
Describe and compare the two leadership styles of the contingency model of leadership.
Describe and compare the two dimensions of the continuum model of leadership.
Describe and compare the four leadership styles of the path–goal model of leadership.
Give examples of MLB general managers who are transformational leaders.
Do you believe results differ when men coach women’s college teams? What about women coaching men’s college teams? Defend your answers.
Review the coaching examples provided in the discussion of Vroom and Yetton’s normative model of leadership. Do you agree with our analysis of the leadership styles of these coaches? Why or why not?
Using “leadership” and “sport” as your key words, use www.scholar.google.com to search for the top five listed academic journal articles.
Find three additional leadership quotes attributed to Vince Lombardi at www.vincelombardi.com.
Which situational leadership model do you prefer? Why? Will you use it? Why or why not?
The battle for leadership was set. Topps Trading Cards had been producing baseball cards for more than 50 years. New York–based Topps was ready to accept an offer from Michael Eisner’s Tornante Co. and its partner Madison Dearborn Partners to buy Topps. Eisner’s group was willing to pay
Name five sport governing bodies.
Discuss the role of governing bodies in managing and controlling their sport.
Why do organizations measure performance?
List the three constant-control methods, the three periodic-control methods, and the four occasional-control methods.
Why is the capital budget the most important budget?
State what the three financial statements show.
How do managers commonly undermine employees’ motivation?
What is the performance equation and how is it used with coaching?
How do coaching, counseling, and disciplining differ?
Name the major ratio measures in finance, marketing, and human resources and explain what they measure.
Do you agree with the ASQ study that determined Reebok had a better quality score than Nike?
Since 1887, Rawlings Sporting Goods has been a leading manufacturer and marketer of sporting goods in the United States. Rawlings’ mission has always centered on enabling participation by developing and producing innovative, high-performance equipment and protective apparel for the professional,
What is the difference between a policy, a procedure, and a rule?
Why do some sport managers fail to plan?
What are some of the activities involved in planning a youth Olympics-style games?
What types of events do sport managers plan?
What is the mission of the University of Southern Mississippi National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security?
Why are time management skills important to a team manager?
What does a time log show?
What are the four key components of the time management system?
What are the most likely major opportunities and threats to be concerned about in sport management in the next few years?
What do you believe is the most important issue facing sport management today?
What is your vision of the future of sport management?
Every sporting event needs to be concerned about the potential for hooligan-type behavior. The term hooligan is often associated with European football games. Some rowdy fans get out of control and can create chaos for the majority of well-behaved fans. All too often the rowdy hooligan behavior
What is sport management? Name some possible career opportunities available to sport management majors.
What are the five management skills? Do all sport managers need these skills?
What are the four functions of management? Do all sport managers perform all four functions?
What are the three management roles? Do all sport managers perform all three roles?
What are the three types of managers? How do they differ?
Is it more important for a sport manager to be efficient or effective? Can you be both?
Should a sport management course focus on teaching students about sports or about management? Explain your answer.
Do you believe that sport management theory is or should be as precise as physics or chemistry? Explain your answer.
What are three career paths in sport management that you find interesting?
Under Armour is one pretty dry company! Under Armour’s mission is to provide technically advanced products engineered with superior fabric construction, exclusive moisture management, and proven innovation. Under Armour produces highly technical gear marketed to provide climate control for
Do most sport organizations focus on creating customer value? Use specific examples to defend your position.
Do you think that all sport organizations should use TQM? Why or why not?
What technological breakthrough in sports has had the greatest impact on the quality of your life, and why?
Should government regulation of sport and business be increased, be decreased, or remain the same? Defend your position.
Categorize a few sport companies you are familiar with as international or multinational.
For the companies you listed in question 6, identify their methods of going global.
What guides your behavior now? Will you use one of the ethical guides from the text? If yes, which one and why?
Can ethics be taught and learned? Defend your position.
How do companies benefit from being socially responsible? Give some examples.
If you were a CEO, what level of social responsibility would you aspire to? How might you go about attaining it?
Has Alex Rodriguez demonstrated that he is worth U.S.$30 million a year? Does his ethical behavior on and off the field have anything to do with this?
Research what socially responsible activities Alex Rodriguez is involved with off the playing field.
Should people in the United States make an effort to buy products made in America?If yes, how should “made in America” be defined?
The scandals associated with the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics (the bribery involved in the site location process and the judging practices used to award the figure skating medals, among others) forced the IOC to reevaluate its practices. The IOC faced two problems that had been difficult to manage.
Why are problem solving and decision making important in sports?
Why is it necessary to determine the decision structure and the conditions surrounding the decision?
Why do organizations use groups to solve problems and make decisions?
Which pitfall of group problem solving and decision making is most common?
Would setting a specific maximum price to spend on a cycle exercise machine be an objective or a criterion?
Are creativity and innovation really important to a soccer team?
We have all made decisions using information that was not timely, high quality, complete, or relevant—we are human, after all. Reflect on a decision your team made with poor information. What was the result?
Why are generating alternatives and selecting alternatives separate steps in the decision process?
Have you ever used any of the techniques discussed in the text to analyze an alternative?If so, which one? If not, how might you have improved on a recent decision using one of these techniques?
Have you, or do you know anyone who has, experienced escalation of commitment to a bad decision? If yes, explain.
How would you make the decision on what player to pick if you had the number 1 NFL draft pick? The 2011 NFL draft posed quite a dilemma for Ron Rivera, the new coach for Carolina.Option 1:Was quarterback Cam Newton from Auburn worth the top draft spot? Recent number 1 quarterback picks had been big
How do plans and strategies differ?
Should all sport organizations have corporate-, business-, and functional-level strategies? Why or why not?
Should a mission statement for an athletic department be customer focused? Why or why not?
Why would a situation analysis be part of the strategic process of redesigning a sport organization?
Why is competitive advantage important to sport organizations?
Are both goals and objectives necessary for managing a health club? Why or why not?
Develop a SWOT for the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM).
As a manager or a coach, would you use MBO? Why or why not?
Which growth strategy would you say is the most successful? Defend your answer.
Develop a BCG matrix for Adidas.
Why would a sport organization use a focus strategy rather than try to appeal to all customers?
Give examples of “other” functional departments.
Companies of all sizes need to develop a corporate strategy. You can imagine how complex such strategies get when the organization is a media and sport conglomerate like AEG. AEG is a subsidiary of the privately managed Anschutz Company. You probably haven’t heard of either AEG or the Anschutz
Can a coach delegate accountability to a player?
What is the importance of employee growth-need strength to the job characteristics model?
What is the first and most important question you ask to determine what and what not to delegate?
Explain why each of the four steps of delegating is necessary.
Why has there been a trend toward more team, network, virtual, and learning organizations?Is this a fad, or will it last?
Matrix structures violate the unity of command principle. Should companies not use the matrix structure?
Boston is known for beans and the Red Sox. In the last decade, Boston has also been known as a city of well-organized championship teams. What is the organizing secret that led to all four professional teams’ winning a championship?The Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and 2007. The last time
How do the management functions relate to change?
How does the systems effect relate to the four variables of change?
Which of the five reasons for resisting change do you believe is most common?
Which of the six ways to overcome resistance to change do you believe is the most important?

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