SPT - 230: Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions

Sports Management correct answer: Process of satisfying sports consumers wants, needs, and desires What do fans do? correct answer: Consume SWOT correct answer: Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats Sports - Industry Practitioner correct answer: Need to be aware of and utilize solid research based upon sound theoretical frameworks Sports - Management Researchers correct answer: Need to reach out to offer practical solutions to sports industry needs What does manage mean? correct answer: Plan, organize, supervise, develop, control, implement, evaluate What ties the institutions various communities? correct answer: College sports What are the various communities made up of? correct answer: faculty, staff, students, alumni, local residents D1 correct answer: Biggest athletic departments - Dominant subculture with large financial outlays for scholarships, facilities, coaches, administrators, travel D2 correct answer: Intermediate - level division. Generally smaller and have fewer athletic departments resources thus lower budgets D3 correct answer: Intercollegiate athletic opportunities are offered but there are no athletic scholarships and coaches typically also work as faculty members and minimal travel budgets What are the interlocking components of sports management decision making? correct answer: Sociology, marketing, ethics, strategic management,PR, Law, sales, finance Faculty managers correct answer: responsible for event elements (ie parking, concessions, restrooms) Sales staff correct answer: must sell tickets, sponsorships, media rights PR department correct answer: focus on community relations and media relations Marketing and sales department correct answer: Focus on sales for specific events Community relations correct answer: Focus on generating goodwill among various constituent groups Examples of community relations correct answer: Reading to kids in schools, visiting hospitals, interacting with senior citizen groups Media relations correct answer: involves attracting members of the press to events and then working to enhance their experience so members of the media will produce positive accounts of the event Event management correct answer: have to undertake strategic management actions to predict, identify, and solve problems Networking correct answer: The process of developing and using contacts for information, advice, and moral support Political Skill correct answer: The ability to effectively understand others at work and to use such knowledge to influence others to act in ways that enhance ones personal and/or organizational objectives How will political skill help you network? correct answer: Enable one to practice self - awareness Critical thinking (reasoning) correct answer: purposeful and based on upon theoretical perspectives and logical assumptions. Utilizes questions and seeks additional info to generate solutions What are the 3 elements of deductive reasoning? correct answer: 1. Premise 2. Inferences 3. Conclusion What is a deductive argument built on? correct answer: Accepted Assumptions What are the 3 criteria for "accepting" a deductive argument? correct answer: 1. Premise must be accepted 2. Each individual premise must be relevant to the conclusion 3. Premise must be adequate to support the conclusion Inductive reasoning correct answer: involves using specific observations to develop reliable generalizations and theories. The truth of it is not based solely upon the truth of the premises What relies on inductive reasoning? correct answer: The scientific method Ethics correct answer: examining individual human values (right/wrong), (good/bad) Why is the study and use of ethics important within the sport