AEM 6325

Leadership and Management in Sports

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course draws upon the study of sports for the purpose of understanding and studying evidence-based principles of individual and organizational behavior. Topics include the nature of motivation, momentum, and coaching as well as the challenges of talent identification, team-level coordination, and strategy development. Assignments provide opportunities for the development and application of analytic skills relating to leadership and management.

When Offered Fall.

• Students will be able to consider and juxtapose organizational dynamics that involve individuals and teams across and beyond the domain of sports.
• Students will closely and directly engage an array of research/analytic methodologies that applicability inside and outside of sports-focused organizations.
• Students will leverage lessons that are available from the study of sports for the purposes of leadership development as well as organizational analysis and management.

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