Leadership in Sport Organisations - PMNG231N

• Title: Leadership in Sport Organisations
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sport Management (51-300100)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / 43 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : PMNG231
• Interchangeability : PMNG231
• Is incompatible with: PMNG231
• Is interchangeable with: PMNG231

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

This course will provide application for the development of skills necessary to be an effective and efficient leader regarding communication, motivation and organizational decision making. The role of human resources and leadership theory in an atmosphere of complexity and multi-culturalism will be explored. Current issues and challenges in sport from a leadership and managerial perspective will be discussed.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

1.    Explain the similarities and differences between leadership and management.

2.    Apply the Interactional Leadership Framework to multiple environments.

3.    Describe the experiences and tools which can help a leader develop.

4.    Explain the advantages and disadvantages of multiple leadership theories.

5.    Apply at least three values-based leadership theories to varied followers and situations.

6.    Explain the stages of Kohlberg’s moral reasoning.

7.    Describe the 5 sources of leadership power within the interactional leadership framework, including uses, advantages and disadvantages of each.

8.    Illustrate how both leaders and followers can use each of the 9 influence tactics.

9.    Explain the relationship between motivation, satisfaction and performance.

10.  Recall and illustrate need, alignment, cognitive, situational and satisfaction motivation theories.

11.  Identify situations and follower characteristics necessary to evaluate before implementing specific motivational theories.

12.  List the tools available to the leader for developing their followers.

13.  Using contingency theories of leadership explain how leaders can adapt to change.

14.  Explain the advantages and disadvantages of John Wooden’s definition of success.

15.  Implement John Wooden’s Two Sets of Three to your leadership environment.

16.  Explain the differences between a growth and fixed mindset.

17.  Explain and provide examples of how leaders exhibit Practice 1: Model the Way.

18.  Explain and provide examples of how leaders exhibit Practice 2: Inspire a Shared Vision.

19.  Explain and provide examples of how leaders exhibit Practice 3: Challenge the Process.

20.  Explain and provide examples of how leaders exhibit Practice 4: Enable Others to Act.

21. Explain and provide examples of how leaders exhibit Practice 5: Encourage the Heart.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

• Regular workshop attendance
• Completion of 3 reflection papers
• Participate in leading a class discussion
• Written test 70%
• Oral exam

Literature

Last update: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

HUGHES, R. R. GINNETT a G. CURPHY. Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience. 8th edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. ISBN 978-0-07-786240-4.
LUSSIER, R.t a D. KIMBALL,. Applied Sport Management Skills. 2nd edition. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. 2013. ISBN 978-1-4504-3415-7.

KOUZES, J.M. a B.Z. POSNER, The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations. 7th edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022. ISBN: 978-1-11-973612-7

WOODEN, J. a S. JAMISON,. Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization. 1st edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005. ISBN 978-0-07-145339-4.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D. (18.02.2024)

Lectures:

1. Leading others
2. Using power and influence
3. Ethics and values in leadership
4. Motivation, satisfaction and performance
5. Skills for developing others
6. Organizing and delegating work
7. Using contingency theories in leadership

Workshops:

1. Interactional leadership framework
2. How leaders develop
3. Transformational leadershiop
4. Authentic leadership
5. Servant leadership
6. Leading with values
7. Values gaps