Final Exam- Behaviour of Sport Orgs

• Refers to structure and process of decision making
• Establishes rules and regulations

• Decision making strategies: Foresight, oversight, insight
• Describe governance: motion, change, regulations
• Roll of the board: held to account by directing, controlling, and coordinating

• Conflicting and competing goals
• Enormous expectations
• Resource dependant/ lack of strategy
• Balancing high performance participation 
• Multiple stakeholders

• Set tone and spirit of Org
• Design strategic direction
• Oversee allocations of resources
• Monitor org performance
• Compliance and reporting to stakeholders

• Board: president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, directors
• Committees: functional units with specific mandate or purpose
• Ongoing committees: financial committee
• ADHOC: specific tasks or objective, dissolved after competition

Someone who was a previous council member with expert knowledge or advice

The term is Latin meaning "from the office"

Governance has boards while ministrations do not

Defines the difference between governance and management

• Governance: owns
• Management: runs things
• “The boards goal is to create the future, not mind the shop”

Internal rules of a company

• Call to Order
• Welcome/Introductions
• Approval of Adgenda and Minutes
• Business arising
• New business
• Adjournment

• Leads agenda and controls it
• Calls for motion and leads it

• Bel Gosel (federal minister)
• Money for sport- $200 million

Bill Bennett

John Furlong

Decides where the funding goes, funds BC sport

Not-for-profit organization responsible for providing strategic leadership to amateur sport in British Columbia.

A legacy organization of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and formerly the BC Sport Agency, viaSport will add value to the sport sector by increasing participation and improving sport delivery across the province.

The organization was formed with strategic guidance and input from the provincial sport sector to create a unified voice for sport in B.C.

James Moore

• Referent- People look up to you, follow you, elected, charismatic
• Reward- Power to reward followers
• Coercive- Power to punish or withhold reward
• Legitimate- Assigned Power, elected
• Expert- Specialized knowledge

Breakdown in standard mechanism of decision making, or whenever interests collide

• Stronger team cohesion
• Better decision making
• Responsive to changing environment

• High stress and dissatisfaction cause high turnover of employees
• Wasted resources
• Weakens team cohesion

• Problem solving
• Focing (I have power)
• Avoiding
• Yeilding (other person has power)
• Compenstation

• "I" statements
• Focus on peoples perception and their feelings 
• Avoid blaming
• Be assertive, not aggressive
• Be willing to compromise, forgive and forget

• Destructive: When 2+ people behave in actions that result in increases antagonism
• Constructive: Type in which people focus on the discussion of the issue while maintaining respect for the people having other points of view

• Functional: When moderate levels of conflict improve effectiveness of the group
• Dysfunctional: Motivated by egos and employees with competing ambitions, leads to higher stress and burnout

• Attempt to motivate and stimulate emloyees when there is little conflict
• Employees to bring together and work more effectively

• Incompatible goals
• Differentiation
• Interdependence
• Source resources
• Poor communication
• Ambiguous rules

Ability to identify, assess, and control emotions of ones self, others, or groups

• Personal Competence:
• Self awareness
• Self management
• Social Competence:
• Social awareness
• Relationship management

Moray Keith

Permanent committee usually with representation of one or more Board Members

Ad hoc is a latin phrase meaning "for this"

Committee formed for a specific task or objective, and dissolved after the completion of the task or achievement of the objective (single purpose)

• 1. Describe problem/identify opportunity
• 2. Who is impacted
• 3. Assess the impacts
• 4. Generate actions/develop solutions/strategies
• 5. Consider and then choose the best action/alternative
• 6. Evaluate decision