Undergraduate Course: Contemporary Issues in Sport Management (SPRT10064)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will explore contemporary issues in sport management emanating from the dynamic and highly competitive environment within which sports organisations operate. The course will focus on three main sectors covering public, private and voluntary sector organisations and how such organisations have responded to the challenges at local, national, regional or international level. |
| Course description |
The field of sport management has focused on exploring theories that are originally derived from mainstream management and applying such theories within a sports context. Another way of studying sport management has focused on the re-application of theory grounded or initially generated from a sport context. The course will draw upon theory from both a sports context and also implications of management theory upon sports organisations. Since sports organisations operate in a mixed economy, contemporary issues covering these spheres will be examined and their likely impact on managing sports organisations. Sports organisations do not operate in a vacuum but are influenced by the activities of other non-sport related management practices. Students will be required to identify or acknowledge contemporary issues in society and their implications upon the management of sport. Students will draw upon case studies at local, national and international level to study such phenomena.
The students will explore current environment with which sports organisations undertake their operations and examine the drivers of change that are likely to also influence management practice in each sector. A case study approach will be ideal for studying different management practices and application of theory to the different situations. Students will explore how current or emerging political, economic, social, technological, legal or environment developments are likely influence practices in the operation and management of the performance of sports organisations.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically examine current issues in managing sport at local, national, regional and international level.
- Critically analyse the political, economic, social-cultural and technological developments as drivers of change in the management of sport organisations.
- Demonstrate critical analysis of contemporary issues in the study of sport management and performance of sports organisations.
- Demonstrate application of appropriate management theories to the analysis of sport organisations within the public, private and voluntary sectors.
- Critically analyse the changing nature of professions within the sport industry.
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Reading List
Bradbury, T. and O'Boyle, I. (eds.) (2017) Understanding Sport Management: International Perspectives. Taylor & Francis.
Hassan, D. (ed.) (2018) Managing sport business: an introduction. Abingdon: Routledge.
Robinson, L. and Palmer, D. (eds.) (2010) Managing voluntary sport organizations. Routledge.
Slack, T. with Byers, T. and Thurston, A. (eds.) (2020) Understanding Sports Organizations (3rd edition), Champaign: Human Kinetics
Sotiriadou, P. and De Bosscher, V. (eds.) (2013) Managing high performance sport. London: Routledge.
Further readings will be recommended for seminars and students will find further texts through literature searches. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and enquiry: critical analysis, application of theories and frameworks, information retrieval, data analysis.
Personal and Intellectual Autonomy: independent study, providing and receiving peer feedback.
Communication: oral communication, written communication
Group work and cooperation: group working, peer review |
| Keywords | Sport Management,Management theory,Professionalisation,Organisational Behaviour |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Davies Banda
Tel: (0131 6)51 6001
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Course secretary | Mrs Alta Mene
Tel: (0131 6)51 6381
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