Sports Organisation and Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Doesn’t exist.

Teaching Methods

Method based on face-to-face exposition, and on another component based on problem resolutions and oral presentations of written works.

Learning Outcomes

Contents selected pursue a formation in the area organization and sport management in various sectors of the society. Organization and Sport Management intends to contribute to the formation of people qualified to act in a local, regional, national or international arena. Intends also qualify people to act different sectors like federative, professional, touristic, scholar, and even healthcare system. One intends a practicing leadership departing from conceptual formation including: 1. Strategic thinking in sport development. 2. Decision making in management of sport facilities. 3. Decision making in investment in sport projects. 4. Process of changing and strategic people management.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

[1] The sport management environment – Sport management overview. What is sport management? Unique features of sport. Sport management environment. Three sectors of sport. What is different about sport management?

[2] People management – What is people management? Is people management in sport special? The essentials of people management.

[3] Organizational structure – What is organizational structure? Dimensions of organizational structure. What influences the structure of a sport organization?

[4] Strategic sport management – Strategic management principles. Why undertake strategic management? The strategic management process.

[5] Decisions on investment in sport projects. Accountability as source of information.  The financial sheets.

[6] Sport marketing – Defining sport marketing. The sport marketing framework.

Head Lecturer(s)

Raul Agostinho Simões Martins

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Analysis of 10 case-studies: 50.0%
Two written tests: 50.0%

Bibliography

[1] Carvalho CN & Magalhães G (2005). Análise Económico-Financeira de Empresas, 3ª Ed., Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora.

[2] Cunha LM (2007). Os Espaços do Desporto, Uma Gestão Para o Desenvolvimento Humano. Coimbra: Edições Almedina.

[3] Hoye R, Smith A, Nicholson M, Stewart B & Westerbeek H (2009). Sport Management, Principles and Applications (2nd Ed.), Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

[4] Lussier RN & Kimball DC (2009). Applied Sport Management Skills. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

[5] Mallen C & Adams LJ (2008). Sport, Recreation and Tourism Event Management. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

[6] Mintzberg H, Ahlstrand B & Lampel J (2000). Safári de Estratégia: Um roteiro pela selva do planeamento estratégico, Porto Alegre: Bookman.

[7] Pires G (2007). Agôn Gestão do Desporto, O Jogo de Zeus. Lisboa: Porto Editora.

[8] Samuelson PA & Nordhaus WD (2005). Economia, 18ª Ed., McGraw-Hill.

[9] Soares I, Moreira J, Pinho C & Couto J (2008). Decisões de Investimento, Análise Financeira de Projectos, 2ª Ed., Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.