PEP 545 Sport Leadership Book: Contemporary Leadership in sport organizations Leave a reply PEP 545 Sport LeadershipBook: Contemporary Leadership in sport organizationsDavid Scott, EdD University of New MexicoInstructions:A. you will write a detailed response to one of the following questions related to the concepts that have been presented in the second half of this semester. Your grade will be based upon the thoroughness of your responses as well as your ability to express and understand the concepts discussed.B. Your responses will utilize information from the text, the course readings, notes and/or other materials to answer questions.Answer will be 3 pages for each answerQuestion #1: What is Organizational Culture and Socialization within sport organizations?a) What are cultural forms? What do those forms serve to do?b) Provide examples in sport of the levels of culture;c) Provide your understandings of what constitutes a strong culture and how you would build a strong positive culture within a sport program that you lead.d) Discuss how a leader may use knowledge of culture within a sport organization or team to enhance organizational effectiveness.e) How does new employee socialization affect organizational culture?1. Describe Holtons Taxonomy of New Employee Learning and how it can be used to understand the organizational socialization process of new employees.2. Discuss the process by which new employees become socialized into an organization.3. What can you as the leader of an organization do to enhance the socialization of new employees?Question #2: What is organizational turnaround? Discuss what constitutes turnaround and why it may be necessary. Provide what strategies are used and how you would use them in order to change the organization for the better.a) Define and describe retrenchment & recovery;b) Provide examples on each of the change messages, as provided in the notes;c) Discuss momentum-building and psychological turnaround;d) Discuss goal setting & change messengers and how you would manipulate them for success.e) Define and describe the concepts of organizational deliberate and emergent strategic thinking. Include in this a discussion of:1. The steps and for developing an effective and compelling vision for a sport organization,2. Dealing with a complex internal and external environment,3. How each of the frames of leadership (as discussed in Bolman & Deal) may be used to enhance strategic organizational planning, dealing with complexity, and problem solving. This entry was posted in Education on December 5, 2021 by .
