There Are A Number Of Factors That Affect Sports Operation

There are a lot of aspects that should be taken into account when determining what makes an athlete successful. One could argue that natural ability is one of the determining factors which leads to success. For example, if an athlete has dreams of playing in the NBA then height makes a difference. There aren’t many successful players in the league under six feet tall. One could argue that level of competition plays a role in the development of an athlete. This could include the skill level of the opponent or outside factors such as playing conditions or game circumstances. These types of arguments play a role in athlete success, but will not be used in this paper because they are factors that are out of the athlete’s control. This paper

In order to manage a professional sporting organization, you must treat it as a business.

Taking into account all these features, we could conclude that the advantages of zero-hour contracts far out weigh the disadvantages. In the future, with the improvement of corresponding protection system and good utilization, they may play an increasingly significant role in British labour market.

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The job I have chosen to do my interview on is a sports psychologist. The responsibilities of a sports psychologist include the following things: evaluate what the client is in need of as well as evaluating their abilities; and observe athletic performance and behaviors that go with that; come up with different strategies that are going to help the client overcome whatever they are having a hard time with and putting these strategies into effect; putting an update on the athletes performance; seeing that the individual has the ability to develop as time goes on; working with a other psychologists, nutritionist, and physiologists; providing the individual with counseling and different kinds of workshops that go over the different

“An investigation to explore how the management of zero hours contracts affects the employees of Abercrombie & Fitch – London”

Zero hour contracts on the rise could be attributed to the economic downturn in recent years, as employers struggle to find ways to reduce the costs of their businesses to be able to keep them viable “greater labour market flexibility helps the economy to respond to changes in demand and output, which in turn enables wages and employment to adjust easier”, according to Jowett et al (2014)

While specializing in sports has increased in young athletes, we are now learning more about the side effects of specializing. The research states that in the United States, there is nearly 72% of school-aged youth that participated in one organized sports team or club. Out of 1200 youth athletes, there was 30% of young athletes that reported that they are specialized in a single sport (Myer et.al 66). In the United States the increase in organized sports as increased from children 6 years and younger starting at 9% in 1997 to 12% in 2008. At the High school level, there has been an increase in sports specialization (Jayanthi 251). Although specializing in a sport may allow an athlete to be strong in that sport, it also can hurt athletes that specializing in a sport.

Zero-hours contracts, or casual contracts, allow employers to hire staff with no guarantee of work. The UK government explained with the following scenarios:

In the simulation, Managing across America the class explored the effects of power and influence on a company 's growth and development. This paper will discuss the opportunities and challenges for the Good Sport Company.

In Detroit, a youth soccer coach named Marilyn Enmark has seen enough of parents overburdening their children. In 2004, one of Enmark’s players on the youth soccer team she coaches, a seven year old boy, had injured his head while playing soccer indoors. His father, being a former soccer player, went up to the boy and instead of helping him, the father reprimanded the poor boy. A week later, after practice the boy’s mother did the same and according to Enmark, the boy ended up in tears. Children and adolescents must not play competitive sports to reduce the pressure being put on them and to save many from being injured.

People working under such an arrangement have no fixed working hours and they are payed only for the work carried out. There is no obligation for employers to offer work, or for employees to accept it. The employees have a guaranteed minimum wage and are entitled to annual leave, as well. Another advantage of zero-hour contracts is that employees are not restricted to work for

This paper focuses on the effect that temporary employment such as zero hour contracts have on the wellbeing of employees, it gives a brief definition of what a zero hour contract is, and how they have changed throughout the years eg how they were used in previous years before being called zero hour contracts, why the use of zero hour contracts is on the rise in the UK business market, and investigates the benefits and detriments of these contracts in regards to employees, it will also look at the financial benefits to the employers who use these contracts, and the type of culture that surrounds the employees who are employed on these contracts, It will also investigate

Heather Stewart, an Observer's economics editor in the guardian stated,“Now we have at least 697,000 workers in the economy who don’t know how many hours they’re going to be working.” reference Zero hour contracts are flexible agreements between the employers and employees that do not include the employee’s number of working hours

Of course I had dreams of playing professional sport like every other young male in the world but, a wise man spoke to me and he asked me how much my favorite basketball player makes on average, I did the research and Lebron James makes over 300 million dollars annually. Younger me got that information and as expected I held strong on my dreams of being a professional athlete until he showed me 0.0015% of Americans make it into the NBA.”Out of every 10,000 kids playing basketball in high school only 3 will make it to the pros. Note, this doesn’t mean they’re going to stay in the pros more than 5 seconds. This doesn’t mean they’re going to get a sneaker deal and be in a Pepsi commercial This simply means they’ll get drafted.” (Odds of Playing).

The career of a sport management professional offers a large number of various positions. One such career is that of a director who specializes in promotion and development. “Promotion and development directors are hired by sports teams and school athletic programs to design and implement promotional campaigns that will increase ticket sales” (Sports Management 1). The biggest part of their job is to provide a profit for the organization they are working for. Directors set up opportunities for the sports team to make money off of sponsors. They also set up deals with advertisers to pay a sum of money in exchange for their ads or products to be listed or shown at their sporting event (Sports Management 1). Good advertising and production of cash flow go hand in hand while promotion directors try to help them to succeed. Development and promotion directors play an important role in developing a profit for their organizations.