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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Sport Organizations provides a strong foundation in organizational theory and organizational behavior and addresses how that theory is applied in a real-world context. It engages readers by providing opportunities to discover the theory in practice.Table of ContentsPart I. Introducing Sport ManagementChapter 1. The Management of Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD Why Sport Managers Need to Understand the Complexity of the Sport Industry Some Definitions Ways to Look at Sport Organizations Future Directions for Sport Management and Improving Our Understanding of Sport OrganizationsChapter 2. Doing Research in Sport ManagementTrevor Slack, PhD, and Terri Byers, PhD The Research Process Theoretical Framework The So-Called Debate on Qualitative-Quantitative or Mixed-Methods Research Research Design Data Collection Methods and Issues Data Analysis Methods Issues of Quality The Write-UpPart II. Fundamentals of Managing Sport OrganizationsChapter 3. Organizational Goals and EffectivenessTrevor Slack, PhD, and Terri Byers, PhD Importance of Understanding Organizational Goals and Effectiveness Organizational Goals Effectiveness or Efficiency Approaches to Studying Organizational EffectivenessChapter 4. Sport Organizations and Their Environments Trevor Slack, PhD, and Terri Byers, PhD The Nature of the Organizational Environment Research on Organizational Environments Controlling Environmental Uncertainty Other Perspectives on the Organization–Environment Relationship The Relationship Between an Organization’s Environment and Its StructureChapter 5. Dimensions of Organizational StructureTrevor Slack, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD Complexity Formalization CentralizationChapter 6. Design Options in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD Typologies and Taxonomies Mintzberg’s Configurations The Simple Structure The Machine Bureaucracy The Divisionalized Form The Professional Bureaucracy Adhocracy Organizational Designs as Ideal Types Notes on Organizational Size Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational DesignChapter 7. Sport Organizations and Their Responses to Policy Spencer Harris, PhD Defining Policy Studying Organizational Responses to Sport PolicyChapter 8. Strategy in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, James Andrew Kenyon, PhD, and Argyro Elisavet Manoli, PhD What Is Organizational Strategy? Levels of Strategy Strategy Formulation and Implementation Strategy and Structure Strategy in Voluntary Sport OrganizationsChapter 9. Sport MarketingFrank Pons, PhD, Marilyn Giroux, PhD, and Lionel Maltese, PhD Marketing of Sport: Spectator Sports, Branding, and Merchandising Marketing Through Sport: Sponsorship, Activation, and Venue NamingPart III. Dynamics and Complexity of Managing SportChapter 10. Control in Sport OrganizationsTerri Byers, PhD, Alex Thurston, PhD, and Phillip Lunga, MBA Evolution of Control Elements, or Components, of Control Sport Management Research on ControlChapter 11. Gender and Sport OrganizationsBerit Skirstad, MS Concepts of Sex and Gender in Sport Historical Development of Women in Sport and Sport Organizations Barriers for Women to Overcome in Sport Theoretical Approaches Explaining Underrepresentation of Women in Sport Gender Equity Policies in SportChapter 12. Volunteers in Sport OrganizationsGraham Cuskelly, PhD Sport Volunteerism Defined Size, Nature, and Scope of Volunteering in Sport Volunteer Life Cycle Organizational Commitment Psychological Contract and Volunteers Volunteer Management Volunteers and Paid StaffChapter 13. Governance of Sport OrganizationsBorja GarcÌa, PhD Theoretical Frameworks The Autonomy of Sport and the Role of the State in Sport Governance The Assessment of GovernanceChapter 14. Decision Making in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD Defining Decision Making Conditions Under Which Decisions Are Made Approaches to Understanding Decision MakingChapter 15. Power and Politics in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD Strategic Choice Power and Authority Sources of Power Other Notable Interpretations of Power Power in Sport Management Research Organizational Politics Politics in Sport Management ResearchChapter 16. Managing Conflict in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Terri Byers, PhD What Is Conflict? Horizontal and Vertical Conflict Is Conflict Dysfunctional to the Operation of a Sport Organization? The Conflict Process Sources of Conflict in Sport Organizations Conflict Management Strategies Stimulating Conflict Current Research About Conflict in Sport OrganizationsChapter 17. Managing Culture in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Terri Byers, PhD Organizational Culture Compared to Climate Manifestations of a Sport Organization’s Culture Thick and Thin Cultures One or More Cultures Organizational Culture and Effectiveness Creating, Managing, and Changing a Sport Organization’s CultureChapter 18. Organizational Change in SportTrevor Slack, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD The Concept of Change Change as Paradox Perspectives on Organizational Change What Causes Organizational Change? Resistance to Change Dealing With Resistance and Implementing Change Stages of the Change Process Innovation in Sport OrganizationsChapter 19. Leadership and Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Terri Byers, PhD Traditional Approaches to Leadership Charismatic and Transformational Leadership Modern Approaches to Leadership: Beyond Idealistic Views of LeadersPart IV. Contemporary Issues in Sport OrganizationsChapter 20. Mental Health and Sport OrganizationsMeghan Thurston, DClin Psy, PhD, Jon Arcelus, LMS, GP(T), FRCPsych, PhD, and Alex Thurston, PhD An Introduction to Mental Health Classification Systems Factors That Contribute to Mental Health Difficulties in Sport Mental Health Difficulties Management of Mental Health Difficulties in Sport Role of Mental Health Professionals in SportChapter 21. Technology in Sport OrganizationsTrevor Slack, PhD, and Andy Miah, PhD Research on Technology and Organizations Critiques of the Technology Imperative Microelectronic Technologies Relationship Between Technology and Organizational StructureChapter 22. Sports AnalyticsBill Gerrard, DPhil The Nature of Sports Analytics Moneyball: The Game Changer Analytics in Invasion Team Sports Other Applications of Analytics in Sports OrganizationsChapter 23. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sport OrganizationsChristos Anagnostopoulos, PhD, and Jonathan Robertson, PhD Corporate Social Responsibility Theoretical Perspectives of CSR Multilevel Approach for CSR and Sport OrganizationsChapter 24. Procurement and Sport OrganizationsSue Arrowsmith, QC (hon), DJur A Multidisciplinary Perspective Introduction to Procurement and Its Significance for Sport Organizations Objectives of the Procurement Process Transparency and Competitive Bidding Procurement for Sporting Events Procurement by Sport Federations

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Book SynopsisAcquire the leadership skills that are the hallmark of the successful project manager! Project management is often defined by processes and methodology, but projects are accomplished by people. Successfully leading those people is the core of a project manager’s job. Even the seasoned project manager will encounter situations that present unique leadership challenges. Bernardo Tirado offers a clear path to help develop leadership skills within the project management framework. Using a hands-on, practical approach, he presents a model for taking any project manager’s leadership skills to the next level. His model focuses on techniques to develop and apply three areas of awareness—self-awareness, awareness of team dynamics, and organizational or “political” awareness. The first three parts of the book provide tools for understanding and influencing behavior and the last part brings the three types of awareness together in a case study. Exercises throughout make the book interactive and offer a continual assessment of the reader’s progress.

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Book SynopsisWorld of Warcrafters, LARPers, Settlers of Catan? Weird. Beliebers, Swifties, Directioners? Weirder. Paleos, vegans, carb loaders, ovolactovegetarians? Pretty weird. Mets fans, Yankees fans, Bears fans? Definitely weird. Face it. We’re all weird. So why are companies still trying to build products for the masses? Why are we still acting like the masses even exist? Weird is the new normal. And only companies that figure that out have any chance of survival. This book shows you how.

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Book SynopsisHow to Articulate and Assess What Success Looks Like The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead, govern, and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance. For-profit institutions measure their success primarily by monetary gains. But nonprofit institutions are different; they aim for social profit. How do you measure the success of these social profit institutions, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet? Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies—from creating mission time to planning backwards to constructing qualitative assessment rubrics—that help organizations take assessment back into their own hands, and improve their work as a result. His insights, illustrated by numerous case studies, make this book a unique organizational development tool for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, as well as emerging mission-based social venture businesses, such as low-profit corporations and B Corps. The Social Profit Handbook presentsassessment and evaluation not as ends in themselves but as the path toward achieving what matters most in the social sector. The result: more benefits to society and stronger, more unified, more effective organizations prepared to make the world a better place.Trade Review“This handbook is nothing less than revolutionary, and just what we need. If you can describe the change you most want to create, you can measure it, and others will come to value what you measure. Social profit, mission time, planning backwards: here’s the answer to how we measure what matters most, focus our attention, and get to where we actually want to go as change-makers. David Grant is the most level-headed, poetic voice for how we might all live and perform closer to our own values. Three times now, his simple and provocative teaching have shifted the way I think and act, and through this book we can share his nuanced, accessible teaching with everyone. I will give this book to every social profit organization with whom I collaborate.”--Peter Forbes, coauthor of A Man Apart, and cofounder of the Center for Whole Communities“For many years, David Grant has helped our organization create firm foundations for new projects and initiatives through the principles outlined in this excellent roadmap for rethinking success. At last his guidance and wisdom are available to anyone fortunate enough to come across this book.”--Robert Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts"Anyone in the business of improving lives—whether they spend their days in government or in mission-driven organizations—can benefit from this simple, elegant, and incisive guide to having not just more impact, but also the right impact. David Grant has produced a book that belongs on the shelves of every political and social leader interested in translating goals to successes."--Peter Welch, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives“It has been my good fortune to help launch and run about a dozen mission-driven organizations over the past several decades. When I finished David Grant's wonderful new book, one thought eclipsed all others. Damn, I thought, I sure wish I had had this guide all those years! What a blessing that would have been!”--James Gustave Speth, author, Angels by the River; founder, World Resources Institute; cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council"Normally, when I hear the word assessment, I consider a nap. But The Social Profit Handbook is different. I enjoyed the jogging pace of the writing, the personal narrative, the linguistic memes for easy transmission. Even better, I'm already integrating David Grant's approach into existing assessment tools. Grant's fresh framework emphasizes formative feedback and rubrics to guide your team toward high performance. This is essential reading for mission-driven leaders dedicated to constantly improving their work.”--Adam Werbach, cofounder, Yerdle; former president, Sierra Club"Wow. Who would have thought a book on assessment could be so compelling! If you are looking for a way to get your board and staff aligned and mobilized around a practical, impact-driven strategy, Grant’s handbook is essential.”--George Hamilton, President and CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Communities“I read The Social Profit Handbook over a weekend. My first day back in the office I recommended it to a new executive director and to one of my senior colleagues and referred to its core concept twice in my senior team meeting. Those of us who lead, oversee, and work in social purpose organizations all know how setting out to describe a compelling vision and to hold ourselves accountable to reach it can be treacherous and disorienting. David Grant has written a timely and valuable guide that reminds us how important that journey is and describes how we can all build a map to navigate it with confidence.”--Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund; founding board chair of the Global Impact Investing Network; former managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation"Over many years of hosting grantee workshops led by David Grant, I have watched hundreds of individuals shift their mindsets before my very eyes. Executive directors and board members alike move from a palpable distaste and fear of assessment to a place where they embrace it as a major capacity-building tool. Like those workshops, The Social Profit Handbook gives every nonprofit or mission-driven business the tools they need to determine what 'success would look like' if they vigorously pursue what matters most to them. David's approach can help readers focus on mission and goals in entirely new ways."--Wendy Liscow, program director, education and capacity building, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation"David Grant's Social Profit Handbook is exactly what a handbook should be–accessible, enjoyable, practical, yet linked to important and thought-provoking theory. I have already applied his rubric assessment framework to my ongoing work as a consultant, as his examples are both refreshing and inspiring. Using his comforting educator's voice, Grant powerfully reframes perennial stumbling blocks into questions that can lead to responsible organizational approaches. I have spent my career attempting to improve the performance of foundations and nonprofits, and I genuinely see this resource as a breath of fresh air in the pursuit of effective implementation of strategy. This book will be a permanent resident on my 'foot-long bookshelf.'"--Nadya K. Shmavonian, former executive of The Rockefeller Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts"Grant has the ability to take on incredibly big ideas, distilling them in a way that sustains their breadth and power, and bringing them into the civic sphere. In The Social Profit Handbook, Grant challenges disheartedness in our sector by providing a rational and aspirational context by which social profit can be better understood and pursued."--Clement A. Price, founding director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers University“Those of us in the business of creating social change all want to do great work, work that really moves our society forward. But figuring out just what success is and remaining committed to it turns out to be very hard. David Grant’s great new handbook provides just the sort of wise counsel anchored by practical tools we need to help us get there. And, for me, his insistence that we truly take the time we need to get clear on what great work looks and feels like is a gift in itself.”--Phillip Henderson,president,Surdna Foundation“The Social Profit Handbook is the most meaningful, understandable, and practical guide to designing metrics that count in mission-driven work that I’ve ever read. What charity-rating organizations completely miss is what David Grant provides in this handbook – the means to measure what truly matters: impact. A must read for foundation leaders, nonprofit professionals, and even individual donors who want to understand the effect of their work, beyond the numbers.”--Nina Stack, President, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers

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Book SynopsisA Future Search is a meeting that uniquely enables people to take down the walls that keep them apart. Future Search details this highly successful way for organizations and communities of all types to apply global thinking and democratic values to achieve rapid, whole-systems improvement. In this widely successful approach, diverse stakeholders in an organization, community, or issue come together for two or three days to explore their shared past, present, and future in a global context. What makes this meeting different from other look-alikes are the transformative underlying principles: Get the whole system in the room; think globally (the "whole elephant") before acting locally; focus on the future and common ground; self-manage tasks and take responsibility for action.New materials for the third edition include: New cases and examples Further emphasis on the four core principles How the methodology has changed, including practices that are no longer part of the techniques. Further concentration on follow-up post-conference Update to the logistics section to show how Future Search can "go green."

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Book SynopsisWe all have a natural tendency to focus on what we donât want to happen, rather than on what we do want to happen., All this time and energy spent on worrying about avoiding pain and loss dominates far too many organizations, suppressing employee engagement and crippling growth. To escape this workplace culture-killer companies need their employees to look forward and focus intentionally on what they do want to happen. In Seeing Red Cars, expert trainer and speaker Laura Goodrich draws an enduring metaphor to show managers and their employees how to make the shift. Itâs a well-known truism that if you buy a red car, you suddenly start noticing red cars everywhere. By extension, if we make a conscious decision to focus on positive desired outcomes at work (and commit to a plan of conscious practice), we experience dramatically positive effects. The transition to affirmative thinking begins one person at a time and then grows, spreading virally through local teams and eventually the entire organization. Once a critical mass of employees has made this change, the Seeing Red Cars mentality becomes a part of the organizationâs core engine, driving growth, innovation, and bottom-line results.Seeing Red Cars provides a process that helps readers craft affirming âœI Wantâ statements and a plan for taking monthly, weekly, and daily steps in the desired direction. Animated throughout by the popular âœred carsâ metaphor, the bookâs three-stage methodology raise awareness, turn insight into action, turn action into outcomes enables readers to both shake destructive habits and achieve personal and organizational goals. Throughout, Goodrich draws on well-documented research on the brain and human behavior and provides entertaining and enlightening stories culled from her 15 years of coaching and advising hundreds of leaders and organizations through change and transition.

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Book SynopsisUsing the same characters as those found in Miller's other bestseller, The Secret, and one new character, a retired Special Forces Commander, this book helps team leaders and team members create high-performing teams. The core message is that Talent, Skills, and Community are all essential to team success, and that team leaders and leaders supervising or training team leaders, need to develop all three in order to create such teams.This work presents a radical message in the team literature and in the practice of most organizations. Most team books focus on such things as getting clear about team purpose and team member roles, not the importance of creating a sense of community in a team. Miller offers concrete suggestions for building teams where people know each other deeply, server each other willingly, and genuinely care for each other. The reader learns of the value true affection and compassion bring to a team and how crucial that bond is to any team's success.

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Book SynopsisReduce Hiring Risks and Predict Success New Mindset. In The Best Team Wins, author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people. New Methods. Robinson, a recruiting professional with over twenty years experience, shows you how to; Use a Data-Driven Job Profile to Assess Candidate Risk; Build a Candidate Scorecard; Rate the Candidate's Core Competencies; Ask the Right Questions to Dig Deeper in Interviews; Craft an Offer the Candidate Can't Refuse; Better Results. By following Robinson's in-depth process, you can eliminate guesswork and focus on building a team that will bring value to your company's culture and bottom line.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth guide for all workers-employees, managers, and CEOs-on how to engage our emotions in the workplace to create a productive, creative, and truly workable environment. We've all been taught that we must suppress or avoid emotions at work, but this inevitably leads to a loss in productivity, diminished creativity, and crushing job dissatisfaction. Research shows 85 percent of us avoid communicating crucial workplace problems upward, and many of us who are employed are actively looking for a different job. What's going on? "The foundational problem is that we threw emotions out of the workplace, when in fact, emotions contain the information we need to make our workplaces work," says Karla McLaren. Now this renowned researcher shares her insights on the skills we most need-and are most often absent in the business world-for healthy, functional, and sustainable workplaces. With The Power of Emotions at Work, McLaren teaches communication and empathy skills to workers at all levels, including: · How to co-create a healthy and well-balanced social environment that benefits all workers in any type of organization · How to recognize your primary emotional role-and the roles of others · How to support people in your organization who perform the most "emotional labor" · Where to find authentic motivation and engagement in your job · How to go from an "unintentional community" to a place of genuine belonging, and much more We all yearn to be our authentic selves at work, where we feel supported and can communicate our feelings and frustrations in a constructive way. Workplaces are "unintentional communities," says Karla McLaren, because without access to our emotions at work, we are left without the tools we need to do our best work in a functional community. This is your resource to help you understand and engage intelligently with emotions at work-so you can help to create healthy and intentional communities where people and projects thrive.

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Book SynopsisBuilding a productive work culture doesn't have to invite burnout and stress—The Productive Leader empowers you and your team to build effective habits for accomplishing your goals. Exhaustion not required. To achieve efficiency, productivity, and significant results, you need to make the best use of the resources available to you. Productivity expert Maura Thomas helps you nurture the crucial resource that is your work culture and build productive habits for yourself and your team, without letting work take over your life. The Productive Leader empowers you to define what productivity means for your team and to create conditions that support your own productivity. Starting with yourself, Thomas's holistic advice will help you develop productive strategies for your whole team, such as: Efficient company-wide communication strategies Achieving the organization's most significant results Off-site work with healthy boundaries Office design that supports collaborative and focused work Holistic well-being of your whole team

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Book SynopsisNew practitioners of change management will benefit from the easy to follow, practical, and implementable approach to working through the change process. Focusing on the most intractable and unpredictable aspect of change: the human aspect. The leadership approaches that are most effective in change are presented. Explanations of why wide involvement is necessary and the methods to produce that kind of engagement are provided. Organizational culture is explored both as an enabler and barrier to change as well as how to leverage the benefits of the culture and minimize its barriers to the change. Team for Change is a great companion to any change methods because it addresses the usual problems, thorny nature and multiple complexities that traditional change management methods do not.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Foundations of Change Chapter 2. People Chapter 3. Trust, Integrity, Values and Ethics Chapter 4. Shared Vision Chapter 5. Leadership and Social Networks Chapter 6. Communication Chapter 7. Explain Why Chapter 8. Gain Commitment Chapter 9. Resistance to Change Chapter 10. Do Something Visual, Participatory and Prominent Chapter 11. Culture Counts Chapter 12. Explain How Chapter 13. Teams and Involvement Chapter 14. Sticking Changing

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Book SynopsisThe 7 Principles of Complete Co-Creation presents a comprehensive view on co-creation. Illustrated by various international case studies, it explains co-creation not as a method, tool or project, but as a new paradigm in which end-users play an ongoing, active role with and for organizations that are relevant to them. It reads like a practical handbook on how to utilise complete co-creation in order to create sustainable value with end-users and other relevant parties. Since co-creation is a relatively new discipline, not much has been written on the topic. The authors have bundled together their years of practical experience to fill this gap. Unlike any existing publication, this book provides the reader with a clear co-creation framework, giving practical answers to questions such as: ‘what is co-creation and how does it work?’, ‘whom to involve in a co-creation process?’, ‘how to convince others of the benefits of co-creation and overcome barriers?’.

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