Sport Management: Leadership, Social Issues and Business Practices

This assignment delves into key aspects of sport management, examining the application of Fayol's management principles (discipline, unity of direction, initiative, and subordination of individual interest) within a sports context. It then uses the Four Frames Model to analyze the pros and cons of partnerships between men's and women's leagues, considering structural, human resource, political, and symbolic frames. The assignment further explores Hersey, Blanchard, & Johnson’s Types of Power and their relevance in sports leadership, providing practical examples. It also addresses the social construction of privilege, racism, and bias within the sports industry. Finally, it outlines policies and procedures a sports leader or business owner could implement to mitigate the negative influences of race, gender, politics, or economics on management, administration, and leadership within their organization, emphasizing fairness and equal opportunities.

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Using a Sport example, demonstrate your understanding of 4 of Fayol’s Management
principles, and its application in Sport.
Fayol’s management principles are related to the practical experiences that can be used in
any management situations irrespective of the frameworks of the organizations. In the case of
sports associations, management of the different levels of stakeholders become critical. Among
the 14 principles, 4 most important and relevant principles are discipline, unity of direction,
initiative and subordination of individual interest to the general interest (Moen, 2017). Discipline
relates to the mandatory fact that a football team has to have discipline so that respect for the
agreements can be achieved. This leads to have obedience, energy, application and outward arks
of respect. The unity of direction is the process of implying the objectives are achieved by all
the team members. The initiative and subordination of individual interest to the general interest
relates to the focusing upon the interest of the group rather than of the individual. If each of the
football team members thinks only of the development of their own then the team will suffer.
Using the Four Frames Model, provide a rationale either in support or in rejection of
partnerships with men’s league and women's leagues at the professional level.
The Four Frames Model, the four categories are structural frame, human resource frame,
political frame and symbolic frame. The partnership of the men’s league with that of the women
has different factors like image of leadership, organizational ethics and basic leadership
challenges and contribution. The rules, roles, policies, goals and environment are different
structurally in these two leagues (Edwards, 2018). In the human resource it can be stated that the
needs, relationships and skills are different of those of the members. In the political aspects the

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power execution conflict, policies and competition are different in men and women league. The
central concepts relate to culture, ceremonies and rituals of the organization. The basic
leadership challenges and contributions are also different in the men’s league and women’s
league. In terms of structural it is leadership contribution is authoritative, human resource is
developed upon the bond of love, political power and symbolic will be significant.
Demonstrate your understanding of 4 of Hersey, Blanchard, & Johnson’s Types of Power
and their application to a sport leadership example familiar to you.
According to Hersey, Blanchard, & Johnson’s Types of Power, there is no one particular
leadership model is applicable for the sports management. This is due to the fact that the factors
relating to the sports organizations keep on changing with time and condition. This is the reason
why the leaders tend to change their styles of leadership with time and the abilities of the
members of the team (Mahindru et al., 2018). For example, the football team members have
different capabilities and different responsibilities to contribute their skills for the growth or
success of the team. Now the leadership in the team if try to bring all of them in the same path,
then conflict will be started. This is the reasons why the model speaks for following style relating
to grow takes relevant as well as relationship relevant. This will be supportive for convincing all
the members easily in one hand and motivate them to meet the goals.
Briefly describe the social construction of Privilege, Racism, and Bias, and their
connection(s) through a Sport Industry example familiar to you.
The social construction of any country gives birth to Privilege, Racism, and Bias and
these are reflected in the sports industries also. As sports industry of any market has exclusive
competition, therefore the corruption level gets higher. In the sports authority, the intention of
the government is high therefore in the selection process, the biasness and racism are found in

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many of the cases (Orta, 2015). For example in the basketball teams of the US, racism is a
common factor. The society as have the intense trend of racism, this is also related to the teams
also. The coaches show biases to the white player and dominate the black ones (Romano, 2018).
In addition to this, the candidates get more exposure or privileges if they have background of
sports in terms of their family members. For example, if a candidate want to enter a football
team, then he can produce proof of their father or grandfather to be a member of the same
football group.
As a Sports Leader or Sport Business Owner, what are policies or procedures that you
would implement to ensure that Race, Gender, Politics or Economics would not negatively
influence management, administration, and leadership in your organization?
A Sports Leader or Sport Business Owner has sole responsibility to develop a team which will be
so unified and no internal or external force will be able to break the bonding of the team
members. The scopes of racism, biasness and corruption pose challenges for the team members
to play according to their choice. The policies will be:
 Learning and recognizing the instances of racism within the team
 Examining own biases and finding out their origin (Zhao et al., 2016)
 Validating experiences as well as feelings of the people of color
 Explaining the negative output of racism within the team
 Arranging relationship building activities among the players.
 Explaining intersectional approach to eliminate any instance of racism
 Allowing the women in the team and giving tem scope to prove themselves

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 Giving scopes to the under privileged yet meritorious players despite their low income
family background.

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Reference:
Edwards, R. (2018). An Elaboration of the Administrative Theory of the 14 Principles of
Management by Henri Fayol. International Journal for Empirical Education and
Research, 1(1), 41-51.
Mahindru, R., Sharma, A., Chopra, S., & Bhatia, S. (2018). A Study of Fayol’s Principles:
Applicability in Today’s Organization. Management Today, 8(3), 213-220.
Moen, D. (2017). The leader-investigator: Using leadership studies as a model for
conscientization through adaptive leadership, the four frames approach, giving voice to
values, and the competing values framework. Journal of Thought, 51(3-4), 22-37.
Orta, S. I. (2015). Dynamics of power in the workplace. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in
the Social Sciences, 6(3), 333-342.
Romano, M. J. (2018). White privilege in a white coat: how racism shaped my medical
education. The Annals of Family Medicine, 16(3), 261-263.
Zhao, X., Shang, Y., Lin, J., Tan, J., Li, H., & Liu, T. (2016). Leader's relational power:
Concept, measurement and validation. European Management Journal, 34(5), 517-529.