CONTEMPORARY SPORT MANAGEMENT
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● associated spending
Answer: money spent by sport participants, spectators, and sponsors
●● discretionary funds
Answer: money left over after necessary expenditures
●● underrepresented groups
Answer: people who traditionally have not been hired in sport
management positions
●● networking
Answer: the building up or maintaining of informal relationships,
especially with people who could bring advantages such as job or
business opportunities
●● workforce diversity
Answer: people of different ages, genders, religions, physical abilities,
social classes, sexual orientations, and cultures working together in an
organization
,●● organizational culture
Answer: workplace values, norms, and behaviors that produce patterns
of behaviors that produce patterns of behavior unique to an organization
●● principled decision making
Answer: basing decisions on the "six pillars of character"-
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good
citizenship
●● extracurricular activities
Answer: opportunities for involvement with clubs, organizations, and
sports in which students in a school may participate but that are not part
of the regular academic curriculum
●● field experience
Answer: a hands-on learning opportunity in which students gain
professional experience in an organization while receiving class credit
●● mock interviews
Answer: practice interviews in which you can rehearse your responses to
questions that interviewers are likely to ask you
●● explicit norms
,Answer: formally communicated rules that govern behavior of group
members
●● implicit norms
Answer: unsalted or informal rules understood and practiced by
members of an organization
●● etiquette
Answer: a system of rules and conventions that regulate social and
professional behavior
●● work ethic
Answer: a set of values based on desirable workplace characteristics that
include accountability, dependability, initiative, taking, and
accomplishment
●● values
Answer: indicators of what you consider most important or desirable
●● job content skills
Answer: the specialized knowledge or abilities needed to fulfill specific
job duties
●● entrepreneur
, Answer: a person who assumes the rusks of a business or enterprise
●● vertical integration
Answer: a company's expansion by moving forward or backward within
an industry; expansion along a product or service value chain
●● diversification
Answer: the act of adding new products to the company's products to the
product mix, thus diversifying the company's product offerings
●● decentralized organization
Answer: the act of developing separate divisions, sub companies, or
departments that focus on certain tasks or products of the company and
can be run autonomously
●● watershed events
Answer: events or developments in an industry that cause significant
changes throughout the industry
●● market share
Answer: ranked position in a market determined by the percentage of a
company's product sales in that market
●● emotive advertising
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● associated spending
Answer: money spent by sport participants, spectators, and sponsors
●● discretionary funds
Answer: money left over after necessary expenditures
●● underrepresented groups
Answer: people who traditionally have not been hired in sport
management positions
●● networking
Answer: the building up or maintaining of informal relationships,
especially with people who could bring advantages such as job or
business opportunities
●● workforce diversity
Answer: people of different ages, genders, religions, physical abilities,
social classes, sexual orientations, and cultures working together in an
organization
,●● organizational culture
Answer: workplace values, norms, and behaviors that produce patterns
of behaviors that produce patterns of behavior unique to an organization
●● principled decision making
Answer: basing decisions on the "six pillars of character"-
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good
citizenship
●● extracurricular activities
Answer: opportunities for involvement with clubs, organizations, and
sports in which students in a school may participate but that are not part
of the regular academic curriculum
●● field experience
Answer: a hands-on learning opportunity in which students gain
professional experience in an organization while receiving class credit
●● mock interviews
Answer: practice interviews in which you can rehearse your responses to
questions that interviewers are likely to ask you
●● explicit norms
,Answer: formally communicated rules that govern behavior of group
members
●● implicit norms
Answer: unsalted or informal rules understood and practiced by
members of an organization
●● etiquette
Answer: a system of rules and conventions that regulate social and
professional behavior
●● work ethic
Answer: a set of values based on desirable workplace characteristics that
include accountability, dependability, initiative, taking, and
accomplishment
●● values
Answer: indicators of what you consider most important or desirable
●● job content skills
Answer: the specialized knowledge or abilities needed to fulfill specific
job duties
●● entrepreneur
, Answer: a person who assumes the rusks of a business or enterprise
●● vertical integration
Answer: a company's expansion by moving forward or backward within
an industry; expansion along a product or service value chain
●● diversification
Answer: the act of adding new products to the company's products to the
product mix, thus diversifying the company's product offerings
●● decentralized organization
Answer: the act of developing separate divisions, sub companies, or
departments that focus on certain tasks or products of the company and
can be run autonomously
●● watershed events
Answer: events or developments in an industry that cause significant
changes throughout the industry
●● market share
Answer: ranked position in a market determined by the percentage of a
company's product sales in that market
●● emotive advertising
