Managing People in Sport Organizations: A Strategic Human Resource Management Perspective

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing People in Sport Organizations outlines the theory and practice of managing people within a strategic framework.

A complete textbook for any human resource management (HRM) in sport course, it explains how sport managers can get the best out of their teams and organizations, develop their professional skills, and create a sustainable performance culture. Structured around the functional flow of HRM practice – from recruitment to rewards – the book introduces every key area of people management, including strategy, planning, training, performance management, and managing change. This new edition includes expanded coverage of topics such as e-HRM and post-COVID workplaces. There is also a new foundational chapter focused on the individual in the organization that sets the context for their effective management.

With international cases, examples, and data included in every chapter, this is essential reading for any sport management student or HR professional working in sport.

Tracy Taylor is an internationally recognized sport management scholar and Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor – Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Tracy’s research focuses on the human elements of diversity and inclusion in sport management, the professionalization of women’s sport and sport volunteering. Tracy collaborates with scholars and practitioners from around the world and is on the editorial board of several sport management journals and advisory boards. Tracy has received the Sport Management of Australia and New Zealand Distinguished Service Award and the European Association of Sport Management’s Chelladurai Award and is a North American Society for Sport Management Research Fellow.

Alison Doherty is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at Western University, Canada, and an internationally acknowledged sport management scholar. Alison’s research focuses on the capacity and management of nonprofit and community-based organizations for safe and inclusive sport and physical activity. She is leading or involved in projects aimed at advancing recognition and reporting of concussion in the youth sport context, a safer sport culture in high performance sport, women and gender equity in sport leadership, and the integration of newcomers through organized sport. Alison was awarded the Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award, North American Society for Sport Management, the Dr. Garth Paton Distinguished Service Award from the North American Society for Sport Management, the Sport Management Association of Australia, and New Zealand Distinguished Service Award and is a Research Fellow, North American Society for Sport Management.

Shannon Kerwin is a faculty member in the Department of Sport Management at Brock University, Canada. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of organizational behavior and human resource management in sport. Specifically, Dr. Kerwin has looked at how personal and organizational values align to enhance important organizational outcomes and safe sport culture, how HRM practices align to produce (or stall) equitable practice and the role of conflict in the effectiveness of volunteer boards of directors. She is a North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) Research Fellow and has collaborated with scholars worldwide to uncover effective practices related to managing our valuable human resources in sport.