Chapter 7 Community Sport
Sport and recreational opportunities designed for people beyond their school years.
What are adult community sport offerings?
The organization that commonly establishes rules and oversees high school athletic competition within a state.
What is a state high school athletic association?
The governing organization most commonly associated with regulating major college athletic programs in the United States.
What is the NCAA?
Payments made by businesses in exchange for associating their brands with a team, league, or event.
What are sponsorship revenues?
The desire to perform an activity because it is personally interesting, satisfying, or meaningful.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Local organizations that provide sport opportunities to community members.
What are community sport organizations?
A model in which a school district or school provides the organizational and financial support for its athletic programs.
What is a school-based operating model?
The administrator who oversees a college or university's athletic department.
Who is the athletic director?
Money a team receives when a media company pays for the rightsd to broadcast or distribute its games.
What are media-rights revenues?
Motivation driven by an external outcome, such as a bonus, award, promotion, or other tangible reward.
What is extrinsic motivation?
A management problem that occurs when program fees prevent some families from participating
What is an affordability or access challenge?
A coach gives the best players extra privileges and ignores established team eligibility rules.
What is an ethical issue in interscholastic athletics?
A university's athletic department spends more money than it receives over a fiscal year.
What is an operating deficit?
Professional sport differs from many recreational sport settings because athletes and organizations operate within a commercial environment emphasizing revenue, competition, and entertainment.
What is a unique characteristic of professional sport?
A motivational theory proposing that effort, performance, and the value of expected rewards influence a person's motivation.
What is expectancy theory?
A community recreation department creates walking clubs, adult leagues, youth leagues, and programs for older adults.
What is managing sport participation across the life span?
A school must decide whether to allocate limited funds to varsity athletics, junior varsity athletics, or broader student participation.
What is a resource-allocation decision in athletic program management?
A university must evaluate how to balance competitive success, financial sustainability, athlete well-being, and academic responsibilities.
What is a major leadership and ethical challenge in incollegiate athletics?
A professional team increases ticket increases ticket prices to improve revenue but risks alienating loyal fans.
What is the challenge of balancing revenue generation with fan loyalty and affordability?
A recreation manager notices that employees are working less diligently. Some believe extra effort will not improve performance, others doubt good performance will be rewarded, and others consider the offered rewards unimportant.
How does expectancy theory explain the employees' low motivation?