Performance and Personnel Management for Sport

Catalog description

This course explores management as a process of effective sport and recreation organizations. It examines the theoretical and practical aspects of management, performance management, and the management of resources throughout the organizational structure, from entry- to executive-level; across all managerial functions of recruiting, training, supervising and evaluating. Through classroom discussion, projects, and case studies. The course will preparing students for mid to upper level management jobs in sport and recreation. The course will examine contemporary organizational culture across all generations of employees and their unique implications, while introducing the evolution of a manager to strategic leader necessary to be successful in the fields of sport and recreation.