Chapter 4 - Sport Management

The environment can be divided into two categories: __________ and __________.

Name the three types of sport organizations.

Most managers and leaders of organizations rarely achieve efficiency.

customers, employees, management, owners and stockholders, unions, competitors, creditors, etc = type environment?

__________ complexity is shown in the number of units that exist across the organization.

To acquire a full understanding of change, one must first examine the __________ of change.

Culture is often manifested through stories and myths, which can be defined as

As organization matures, may experience need 4leadership the organization's alignment with its environment becomes askew

Which of the following best defines economies of scale?

The term spatial complexity refers to

Which types of organizations has a simple design and little need for specialization and standardization?

economy, technology, politics, social and cultural forces, and demography = what environment?

savings originating from the maximization of resources used throughout the organization

According to Pettigrew (1987, 1990), which of the following elements should be considered to understand change?

To achieve their goals, organizations obtain __________ and then transform them into __________.

What are the three major dimensions of structure?

What is the main goal of commercial organizations?

a federal or state government agency; a regional or local government department is type of....

Which of the following best defines economies of scope?

Culture manifests itself in organizations through myths, symbols, ceremonies, and artifacts.

Organizations develop strategies to gain a competitive advantage over other organizations.

Which of the following is not an element of a sport organization's general environment?

When several levels exist between the top executive and the lowest positions in a sport organization, this organization

A __________ refers to a course of action or a direction in which to move the organization from one point to another.

The __________ of an organization is the extent to which it achieves its goals.

Typically, organizations are either completely centralized or completely decentralized.

__________ refers to the creation of partnerships in order to achieve common or mutual goals or activities.

the number of levels that exist between the top executive in the organization and the lowest positions in the hierarchy

Which of the following approaches focuses on the outputs of the organization?

savings originating from mass production of goods and services

The age structure of the population, the level of education, the standard of living=examples of demographic affect org.

Which approach to evaluating organizational effectiveness focuses on the transformation side of the organization

a social entity created to coordinate the efforts of individuals with the intent to achieve goals

When high levels of specialization exist, there are usually high levels of standardization as well.

An organization design that has no stable form of centralization or decentralization and is extremely flexible is referr