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Abstract

In this article the problem of sport management is discussed. Firstly, a brief definition to the notion of Sport management is given followed by an excurse to history. Than the background and origin of sport management is discussed the second part of the article is dedicated to the current situation and prospects of sport management. A special attention is paid to the educational sphere and career opportunities that potential employees may have in the field of sport management. Finally, the article is concluded by prospects of sport management.

Introduction

Sport management existed for quite a long period of time and it always accompanied sport as its essential part. Naturally, it had different forms and differed from the notion of sport management as it is defined nowadays but such activity is known from ancient times. At least ancient Greeks practiced such an activity and probably they may be called one of the founders of sport management. This fact proves the importance of sport and sport management for people of all times. It was and it remains to be as important for people as their health sine sport provides health for people and sport management provides effectiveness of sport for all its participants. Nowadays sport management becomes more and more important because as many other things in the modern world sport is business and consequently it needs effective management that, in its turn, demands the preparation of well-qualified specialists in this domain. At the same time sport management is not only business. As sport so sport management are social phenomena for it involves not only professionals, for whom sport is their main source of earnings and actually it is their life, but also there is a huge category of amateurs, for whom sport is just a hobby but they still need sport management to practice sport as effectively as possible. So, taking into consideration the role of sport and sport management in the modern world, I would like to discuss this phenomenon in my article and focus my attention on the notion of sport management itself, its history, and prospects for all those who either on their way or already work in this field.

The Notion and Role of Sport Management

First of all, it is necessary to start with the definition of sport management. In order to understand any phenomenon, we have to know what is implied by its definition and interpret it correspondingly. Speaking about sport management, it is possible to say that there may be different interpretation of this notion but the main point of all definitions remains practically the same, in other words it may change its form but its content, its basic principles remain the same.

On analyzing different points of view on sport management, it is possible to make a general conclusion and give certain conclusion what it actually is. On doing this, I would prefer to define sport management as follows: “Sport management is a goal-oriented social process within a sport enterprise using pragmatic self-determined goals involving the selection of appropriate strategies and provisions for directing the work of the sport enterprise, and the control of performance in an effort to meet the objectives of the organization.” (Parkhouse 1996:47). Such a definition provides probably the best description of sport management and its main characteristics which permit to understand the essence of this phenomenon.

Naturally, there may be different view on sport management but it is obvious that any sport organization have to have its goals to achieve. The latter may be done only with the help of sport management that can organize all the staff of the sport enterprise and mobilize all its forces for achievement its goals. At the same time, simply to organize the work of a sport organization is not enough. It is necessary to control the fulfillment of the main tasks each department or even each person within the organization has to do.

But such a definition helps to realize what sport management is at large. At the same time it is necessary to take into consideration the position of those people who work in this field and for all those people who are currently working or are going to work in this sphere sport management is not just a profession it is rather a set of different professions, basically of administrative character which provide a person’s ability to fulfill his or her duties as a sport manager.

Obviously, management remains management even in such a specific domain as sport, particularly if we speak about professional sport which nowadays is more than sport. It is a great business and it is enough to have a look at such monstrous sport associations in North America as NHL, or NBA, for instance, it will be evident what kind of business it is and how profitable it may be, naturally on the condition if the management is effective, well planned and the execution of the main tasks is thoroughly controlled. At the same time we should remember that sport or any sport organization is more than a commercial enterprise it is also a social phenomenon since very often sport plays very important role in the life of certain groups of people or even whole countries. For instance, in the ancient world, namely in Greece, any wars were forbidden during the period of the Olympic games. So the organization of the Olympic games played a significant peacemaking and consolidating role in the ancient Greek society.

Unfortunately, nowadays we can hardly find an example like this but still sport remains very important for any human society and proper organization of sport events as well as effective functioning of numerous sport enterprises remains extremely significant for people in any country in the world.

Sport Management: Education and Career Opportunities

Taking into consideration the role sport and consequently sport management play in the modern world, we can presuppose that sport organizations need a great number of well-qualified specialists that could be provided only by professional education of such specialists on the highest level. The current situation actually proves that the growing demand engenders the growing offer of sport management education which matches the basic demands to specialists in this field. But it is necessary to point out that such a trend has appeared recently, within the last fifty-sixty years.

Take a day for reflection every now and then.

Everyday goes by for new thoughts and ideas. It is fascinating to think that you can reflect the days and no one can accuse you for being wrong. I mean who decides what is right and wrong? If we are lucky we wake up in the morning.

When you go to bed in the night what do you think?

Are there any reflections? Does it have to be any dramas for your thoughts to show up? There are so many opportunities out there. Think and reflect.

Like my day today. It started off little later then normal. No worries. I was working by the computer to figure out some stuff. In the afternoon I had a late lunch with my youngest daughter and later on my oldest one came a long. We took a cup of coffee together. It was nice weather and I called a friend of mine to go for a walk. He showed up. We were walking for an hour and a half. It is refreshing and nice to catch up with a good friend. That’s the good part of living the life I do. I am deciding my time to work and travel where ever and where to go. You can do that too.

It is a typical net working life. Make the commitment of the time to work. Decide also witch days you like to work. Keep in mind to plan. If you fail to plan then you plan to fail.

It is vital with the planning.

Set up a goal. Make a goal of where you ant to be in a year, in five years and in a ten years plan. Also make a wish of the money. How much do you want to make in what period of time? Are there any people to involve in your plans?

Like a family, are you married or have a spouse?

Please involve them too. This does take time to develop.

It does not come over the night. If you have a full time job let that support your long term goal to become an independent representative. To live the life you deserve.

We were born to be free and work with the things we love to do. I think Universe is always looking for ways to keep us happy. It works both mentally and physically.

Why not let the nature to have its course? I am not willing to stop or change it. Everyday I am thankful and careful of the choices I make. Is it really that easy people ask me?

Of course I reply. But it takes a while to figure out what you want and what you expect from life.

That’s why I think it is important to reflect upon things, events that you are going through every day.

If you are not doing it for you who is? Do not depend on other people. You can not blame them anyway.

It is all up to you. So get up and take some actions. Make the commitment that your life has been waiting for. Because you are worth it. The best you can be.

Organising the body in your human anatomy class means assigning matters in reasonable order. It can get rather complex when it gets to the human body. because you are not rather certain what to begin with. The typical tendency is to begin with the skeletal system.

This is a good option when you are prepared to get into the subject of the systems, but your not quite there nonetheless. You need to go backwards one step further. and learn what is the skeletal system made of. This is easy, its simply made of cells like the entire body is. Once you have accomplished your learning of cells. you will then be happy to move forward.

When you get to the matter of the skeletal system you will learn that its what controls your body up. So what is the body? Yeah, its all the systems and organs that you are going to pick up about, but the body is made up of tissue.

Where the skeleton carries the body up, its the tissue that keeps everything in. Without tissue, the interior of the lungs would flow out. Without tissue, the inside of the kidneys would be open. This applies to every organ and built-in item with the body. The tissue is the case, or the blanket. You need to recognize what the tissue is made up of.

You are going to say its made up of cells and thats right. Nonetheless all these cells collectively bond together to make what? Tissue naturally. Thats not where this portion of the work ends. You require to now know the various structures of the tissue.

To get your notes for this portion of the topic recall that you will be learning the tissue in layers because it is made of levels. You must acquire and have a good understanding of what every layer plays and its procedure. Reason being, you are going to require to know this so you will under the structures of the organs ,when you reach to that portion of your Human Anatomy studies.

In your note book you will almost certainly have illustrations showing out the major fields of your notes. The easiest way you can acquire, is draw these every time you cover a point that has a photograph explaining it. Do your greatest to do your illustrations stepwise with mini box notes below every drawing. Color the drawing and check the edge of the font with the comparable color.

If you abide by these methods throughout your whole learning of the Human Anatomy, you will have your wisdom stored in a very precise methodical order. Then when it occurs time to write exams, you will automatically advance them in the identical well-kept path.

Its getting close to the time that you now need to draw a flow chart. Your flow chart should be a series of blocks. In every cube as you learn a different segment put the highlights in the block, then when you study the following topic do the same in the incoming cube. This will serve as a check sheet when you are studying, to make sure you dont forget out a step. With the amount of info you are ingesting it can well be done. Not as likely when you get into the superior systems, but it can take place when acquiring the fundamental principle.