Decision Making in Sports Industry

Running head: DECISION MAKING IN SPORTS INDUSTRY 1
Decision making in sports industry
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DECISION MAKING IN SPORTS INDUSTRY 2
Decision making in sports industry
Select a common problem or issue and identify at least two organizations that have dealt
with the problem or issue you selected.
Over the last years sports organizations have been caught participating in corruption in one way
or another (Maennig, 2006). These include paying associates and young athletes to attend to
certain colleges, performance enhancing drugs, bribery, graft, payouts and so forth. Corruption in
sport organizations is not a new occurrence; nonetheless, it seems that swift transformations in
the industry, most particularly the commercialization of sports as well as a consequential
incursion of revenues appear to have aggravated the issue. In 2018, NCAA (National Collegiate
Athletic Association) for instance was alleged of giving payouts whereby proletarian athletes
were charged of being given and accepting bribes and other favors to play at big-time colleges
led by big-time coaches (Peck, 2017). NFL (National Football League) has also been caught up
with corruption cases particularly embezzlement of funds along other sports malpractices
(Marvez, 2016).
Explain the nature of the issue and describe the decision-making style used by each
organization.
The issue of corruption in sports organizations (in all its forms and degrees) is a worldwide
trend which has, and continues to jeopardize the integrity of these firms, causing a major
challenge for sport managers. Over the past decades corruption cases have been manifested in
various forms resulting in multitude of consequences. For example, NCAA has been involved in
a number of scandals of fraud, duplicity, and bribery in which players have been given funds in
order to commit to a particular college. The student-players who were given tens of thousands of
USD have desecrated NCAA declaration wherein taking bribes and other financial payouts
would consider them not entitled to play. These under-the-table monetary offers have been
referred to as the biggest “underground recruiting operation (Truszkowska, 2018).” Since
NCAA is more concerned with long-term results, managers are applying conceptual style of
decision-making in order to solve the issue of corruption. Leaders in NACC gather its teams
together and other key personnel and present the issue of corruption and in the process give all