Managing People in Sport Organizations (Sport Management Series) - Softcover

Doherty, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750682299 ISBN 13: 9780750682299

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Managing People in Sport Organizations provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of managing people within a human resource management framework. It provides the reader with the skills to understand and work with people in sport organizations and, given the significant changes in sport organizations over the past twenty years, it addresses the issues of managing organizational complexity and how human resources adds value. Written by a team of expert authors it:

• Provides a systematic approach to managing people based on well established conceptual frameworks supported by substantial empirical research
• Analysis and explains how to understand and work with people in organisationally complex situations
• Outlines how HR can support organisational strategy, positively impact performance and deliver sustainable success
• Designs a strategic human resource management plan that is effective, sustainable and able to adapt to changing conditions.
• Covers the key research findings in the key area of HR in sport.

With each chapter including learning objectives, key issues, international cases studies and supported by online PowerPoint slides Managing People in Sport Organizations is the definitive text for this crucial area of sports management.

About this title

About the Author:

Tracy Taylor, Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Alison Doherty, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Peter McGraw, Associate Professor, Director of Labour-Management Studies Foundation, Macquarie University, Australia

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0750682299
• ISBN 13: 9780750682299
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328