Event Management - Essay

Running head: EVENT MANAGEMENT
Event Management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Introduction
Event Management refers to the process of managing all the operations for the effective
organization of a particular event or program (Yeoman et al. 2012). For the success of a
particular event, effective contribution from the human resources is required. In addition, it needs
to be mentioned that there are various stakeholders involved with a particular event. In this
particular process, certain factors create their effects on the decision-making process of different
stakeholders of the events. Thus, it is necessary to consider all these aspects at the time of
managing a particular event.
Discussion
The main aim of this essay is to analyze and evaluate various aspects of a particular
event. It was an Annual Community Function. The concept of the community function was to
arrange such kind of a program that would be suitable for everyone of the community
irrespective of age group. The major activities of that community function were group dance
performance, play, recitation, magic show and a band performance. In addition, there was
arrangements for a dinner party for all the community members. The whole program took place
at the community hall. The major stakeholders of that community function were the organizing
community, sponsors, and members of the community, local authorities, service contractor,
performers, participants, entertainers and others.
The main objective of this community function was to effectively plan the event so that
all the community members can participate and enjoy the program. In order to achieve this
particular objective, it is required to take some steps. They are number of people attending,

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number of participants, take contribution from the sponsors and determination of the profit. It is
required for every event to have some specific objectives as they keep the event organizers focus
towards the achievement of target. Apart from this, these objectives helped the organizers of the
community function to measure the outcome of the event for organization of any future events
(Quinn 2013).
Thus, the scope of this event is related to the objectives of the community function. One
major scope of the community program was to make optimal use of the required resources that
are human resources, physical resources and financial resources. Another scope was to complete
the whole program within time. It can be seen that the event organizers had the scope to
complete the event as per planning (Lotem et al. 2013).
From the above discussion, it can be seen that different stakeholders were involved in the
event management process of the community function. It is natural that different types of
decisions were needed to be made for the effective complementation of the community function.
There are various principles of psychology that affected the decision-making process for the
community function. There are different theories that helped in the analysis of the effects of
various principles on the decision-making process of the stakeholders. Some of those major
theories are Csikszentmihalyi and Flow Theory, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and others. Some
of those theories are discussed below: