CONTEMPORARY SPORT MANAGEMENT
EXAM SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS
ACCURATE ANSWER COLLECTION
●● List and discuss 3 sport business settings that might represent job
opportunities for sport managers.
Answer: Single Sports (Professional Leagues, teams)
Multi-Sports (Athletic foundations, disabled sports, high school)
College Sports (college associations, college athletic conferences).You
have to be competent in writing, selling, promotion, accounting,
budgeting, coordination, leading etc.
●● Describe the sports industry model and its 3 sectors, and provide
examples of sport organizations in each sector.
Answer: The sport industry model shows the relationships among among
various segments and sectors of the sports industry. The 3 main sectors
are public, nonprofit, and commercial. Public sectors would include a
parks and recreation department that provides citizens with sport
programs, services and facilities. Nonprofit sectors are voluntary
organizations like the International Olympic Committee and the USA
Team Handball. The third and final sector is the commercial sector.
Their main focus is to generate profit. This usually includes professional
sport organizations like Columbus Crew and Sky Blue FC.
●● Identify 3 unique aspects of sport management, and explain how
each makes the sport business different from other businesses.
,Answer: Sport Marketing: Sport is consumed as quickly as it is
produced. Sport Enterprise Financial Structure: It's unique because they
earn a significant portion of revenue not from
sale of a service but from things such as tv rights and concessions, Sport
industry career paths: So it allows you to continue a career after playing.
Sports are the basis of a person's social identity.
●● Explain the task clusters into which sport managers' responsibilities
can be classified.
Answer: -Communication management: writing, selling, working with
media, interviewing, promoting, advertising, fund-raising
-Organization Management: budgeting, accounting, coordinating,
managing personnel, managing facilities
Jobs: Marketing and sales, Correspondence, Public speaking,
Community relations, Record keeping, and marketing and sales
●● Define critical thinking, and explain the benefits of applying critical
thinking skills to important issues in sport management
Answer: Critical thinking is careful thinking that helps us move forward
in a continual, ongoing search to improve our opinions, decisions, or
judgements. With the critical thinking skill you will be able to succeed in
almost any job you choose.
●● List the dispositions that critical thinkers should possess, and
indicate whether you possess each of them
, Answer: Seek and offer clear statements and clear reasons, try to be well
informed and use credible sources and observations, consider the entire
situation and the context, be alert for alternatives and be open-minded,
take a position with sufficient evidence and reasons, and seek precision
and try to get it right in employing their critical thinking abilities.
●● Define principled decision making, and give examples of when and
how sport managers need to make principled decisions
Answer: Principled decision making is basing decisions on the six pillars
of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and
good citizenship. Sport managers worldwide will be conscious of
environmental concerns and will incorporate this understanding into
their business practices.
●● Describe opportunities and challenges in technology, social media,
ethics, and social responsibility, and globalization that all sport managers
will face in the future.
Answer: You can study another language to broaden your horizons and
enhance quality of life. That goes along with going to study in another
country. Participating in international events.
●● What is the ADA
Answer: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
●● Business Ettiquette
Answer: How you present yourself professionally/in a business setting
EXAM SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS
ACCURATE ANSWER COLLECTION
●● List and discuss 3 sport business settings that might represent job
opportunities for sport managers.
Answer: Single Sports (Professional Leagues, teams)
Multi-Sports (Athletic foundations, disabled sports, high school)
College Sports (college associations, college athletic conferences).You
have to be competent in writing, selling, promotion, accounting,
budgeting, coordination, leading etc.
●● Describe the sports industry model and its 3 sectors, and provide
examples of sport organizations in each sector.
Answer: The sport industry model shows the relationships among among
various segments and sectors of the sports industry. The 3 main sectors
are public, nonprofit, and commercial. Public sectors would include a
parks and recreation department that provides citizens with sport
programs, services and facilities. Nonprofit sectors are voluntary
organizations like the International Olympic Committee and the USA
Team Handball. The third and final sector is the commercial sector.
Their main focus is to generate profit. This usually includes professional
sport organizations like Columbus Crew and Sky Blue FC.
●● Identify 3 unique aspects of sport management, and explain how
each makes the sport business different from other businesses.
,Answer: Sport Marketing: Sport is consumed as quickly as it is
produced. Sport Enterprise Financial Structure: It's unique because they
earn a significant portion of revenue not from
sale of a service but from things such as tv rights and concessions, Sport
industry career paths: So it allows you to continue a career after playing.
Sports are the basis of a person's social identity.
●● Explain the task clusters into which sport managers' responsibilities
can be classified.
Answer: -Communication management: writing, selling, working with
media, interviewing, promoting, advertising, fund-raising
-Organization Management: budgeting, accounting, coordinating,
managing personnel, managing facilities
Jobs: Marketing and sales, Correspondence, Public speaking,
Community relations, Record keeping, and marketing and sales
●● Define critical thinking, and explain the benefits of applying critical
thinking skills to important issues in sport management
Answer: Critical thinking is careful thinking that helps us move forward
in a continual, ongoing search to improve our opinions, decisions, or
judgements. With the critical thinking skill you will be able to succeed in
almost any job you choose.
●● List the dispositions that critical thinkers should possess, and
indicate whether you possess each of them
, Answer: Seek and offer clear statements and clear reasons, try to be well
informed and use credible sources and observations, consider the entire
situation and the context, be alert for alternatives and be open-minded,
take a position with sufficient evidence and reasons, and seek precision
and try to get it right in employing their critical thinking abilities.
●● Define principled decision making, and give examples of when and
how sport managers need to make principled decisions
Answer: Principled decision making is basing decisions on the six pillars
of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and
good citizenship. Sport managers worldwide will be conscious of
environmental concerns and will incorporate this understanding into
their business practices.
●● Describe opportunities and challenges in technology, social media,
ethics, and social responsibility, and globalization that all sport managers
will face in the future.
Answer: You can study another language to broaden your horizons and
enhance quality of life. That goes along with going to study in another
country. Participating in international events.
●● What is the ADA
Answer: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
●● Business Ettiquette
Answer: How you present yourself professionally/in a business setting
