Business Leadership: Detailed Analysis of AMSSM's Business Operations

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM), focusing on its business leadership and stakeholder management. The report evaluates AMSSM's adherence to general principles, customer relations, employee satisfaction, and interactions with owners/investors, suppliers, competitors, and the community. It highlights the organization's strengths, such as its commitment to ethical conduct, transparency, and stakeholder engagement. The report also identifies areas for improvement, particularly in supplier payment timeliness. The analysis includes an assessment of AMSSM's overall performance and provides recommendations for enhancing its leadership and operational effectiveness, especially in terms of timely supplier payments to maintain strong relationships and ensure the continued delivery of quality services. The report concludes with a summary of findings and a proposed action plan to address the identified challenges and capitalize on the organization's strengths.

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Brief overview of the company
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) was founded in the year
1991 for fulfilling a void existing in the sports medicine since the beginning. The founders are
most well-known experts of the sports medicine who had realized that there were some physician
organizations supporting the sports medicine. Also, there was not such forum for the care non-
surgical physicians of the sports medicine. The mission of AMSSM is provide a forum in order
to foster some professional relationships all among the physicians of the sports medicine to
advance the sports discipline of the sports medicine through research, education, excellence and
advocacy in the patient care. The organization is committed to the service, the integrity, honesty
and respect, the quality and the excellence, the communication, the teamwork and the
collaboration.
General principles
As the general principles of the organization are concerned, it is found that it serves as
the premier educational resource for the sports medicine physicians. It is aimed at upholding and
promoting the priority issues in the sports medicine which affects the patients, the members and
the communities. In terms of the patent care, it fosters excellence in the safety and care of the
sports medicine patients. The collaboration is for developing and utilizing the mutual
relationships for the enhancement of AMSSM goals, objectives and the mission. The
organization can be given 3-4 in most of criteria under general principles because it is fund to be
creating value for all of its stakeholders by taking their consent and staying transparent in their
activities. It further contributes in the economic and social development through creating
employment for the youth. The honestly is the primary focus of the organization as mentioned in
the mission statement having adhered to the domestic and the international laws where it can be

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given 4. It is compliant with the state and the national laws of trade and aims at eliminating the
corrupt practices as money laundering, bribery and some other illicit activities where it can be
given 5.
Customers
Recently, AMSSM is found to be releasing a position statement about the Mental Health
Issues and the psychological factors within the athlete people. It includes the detection, the
management, the effect on the performance and the prevention too. It is also found to have
partnered with the IIRM or the international institute for the Race Medicine for conducting a
cross sectional study of the medical incidents in the United States. Hence, in terms of providing
quality which meets the requirements of the customers, the organization can be given 4 and
treating the customers fairly, it can be given 5. The customer complaints are further listened to
carefully by the customer executives and the health/safety impacts are disclosed to the customers
when appropriate where it can be given 4. As per the objectives of the organization, it produces
the goods and the services which maintain and enhance the environment’ quality gaining 3 as a
score and respects the human dignity in the marketing, the products and the advertising and at
the same time respects the cultural integrity of the customers where it gains 4.
Employees
The employees of AMSSM are usually found as happy and satisfied because there is
proper employee benefit and compensation program which protects the health and the dignity
gaining 5 in this field. The transparency in the communication system is the second focus of the
organization and in this field it can be scored as 4 because they conduct weekly meeting for
exchanging ideas and the opinions on a particular topic treating them with equality of

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opportunity irrespective of their race, gender and religion. The organization further listens to the
employees properly and encourages having assisted them in the development of skills and the
knowledge. It can be given 5 in addressing the problem of the unemployment and dislocation
which are connected with the decision of business.
Owners/investors
The organization as a whole provides the investors with a competitive and the fair return
and the communication with them is maintained properly. It gains 5 in terms of protecting and
then increasing the assets of the investors where it can be given 4. It respects the suggestions and
the complaints of the investors gaining 5 as a whole. It makes use of the assets of the company
for fulfilling the official purposes where it can be scored as 3.
Suppliers
In terms of relationship with the suppliers of the company, the scores are around 2-3 as a
whole. Although the transparency of communication is properly maintained by the company
with everyone including the suppliers, the payments to the suppliers are provided lately where it
gets 2 as a score. Otherwise the business dealings with the suppliers are maintained properly, it
does not engage in some unnecessary litigation gaining 4 as score. It is further found to be
fostering a long-term connection for the quality, the value of the suppliers, the reliability and the
competitiveness. It can be scored as 5 over here as it prefers those suppliers whose practices of
employment respect the dignity of human.
Competitors
The competitors of the organization are the other sports medicine organizations such as
ACSM, AOSSM and others. The organization respects all the property rights both tangible and

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intangible where it can be given 5 and it also shows respect for the competitors gaining 5 as the
score. It further acquires the commercial information quite ethically and honestly too gaining 4
as the score. It further supports the open markets for the investment and the trade.
Communities
The organization has developed strong and understandable relation with the government
officials where it can be given full marks as 5. The organization further avoids any kind of
improper relationship with the government officials since it has developed its own policy book
that is expected to be followed by everyone in the organization. It puts effort on addressing the
environmental and social harm that is caused by the activities of the company where it can be
given 4-5. The human rights of the company are maintained and scrutinized properly gaining 5
as the score. The employees are supported accurately with the public polices and the promotion
of the human development is done as well. The organization collaborates with the groups and the
communities for the improvement of the education, the health, the economy and the workplace
safety. It also supports the peace, the social integration, diversity through its training programs.
The local cultures are respected and preserved where it can be given 4 as a score. It is further
seen as contributing to the education, charity, employee participation and the culture of the civic
affairs through the CSR programs they have to improve the community conditions where it gains
4 as a score.
Others
Most importantly, it has the Foundation support opportunities that include the research
grants, the AMSSM fellow research and the leadership conference, the annual meeting of the
AMSSM, the ultrasound educational package of the sports, the starter kits and the student

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scholarship. Also, the promotional opportunities consist of the industry sponsored lunch, the
registration bags, welcome receptions that adds value to the organization as a whole where it can
be scored as 5.
Summary and action plan
Therefore, as a summary of the business operation and leadership management of the
organization, it is seen that in most of the fields its average score is 4-5 but only in the field of
supplier relationship management part, it has scored less. In the general principle part, it is seen
that it focuses on the creation of value to all the stakeholders, having contributed to the social
and the economic development. It adheres fully with the domestic and the international laws
complying with the employee rights and safety measures. The honesty and the transparency of
communication is its primary focus and it arranges for weekly meetings / conferences with the
staffs or the stakeholders for knowing their views on a particular subject. The respect and the
integrity with the customers and the employees are maintained in a proper way. It respects the
competitors and complies with the trade laws gaining full scores. However, in the part of paying
the payments to the suppliers on time, it is yet to improve a bit because delay in the financial
cases might lead to the weakness in the relationships with the suppliers. The suppliers might find
some other similar organization where they will get the payments cleared in time. This in turn
might lead the organization backwards and they might fail in delivering the required to the
customers because the suppliers are one of the most important stakeholders of a specific
company. Hence, this is the area where they need to improve in terms of the time management.

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In the above mentioned way, the time can be managed and the supplier payment can be
given on time. In this way, the suppliers will be satisfied with the work ethics and the operation
of the organization and they will be associated in a long-term relationship with the organization.

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