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Leadership versus adaptive leadership
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Leadership versus adaptive leadership
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Responsibility Although being the owner of a business can often give you a lifestyle of freedom and flexibility compared to other jobs as you can work out your own working hours, you also are faced with a variety of responsibilities to handle compared to other jobs. When talking to the owner of Preet Sports Canada, he made it clear on how difficult it was financially to get the business started, Preet Sports Canada required a bank loan to get the business started so that they could buy the items necessary for the business to grow. It is then the owners responsibility to not obtain too large of a loan so that they are able to pay back the loan at a later stage. Another huge responsibility the owner of Preet Sports Canada had to deal with was …show more content…
the marketing side of the business which is vital for a business to thrive. The marketing includes the publicity side of a business which was talked about in the last section. Marketing is huge for business' as no matter how good the products may be, the marketing side has to be as good if not better so that the public are aware of what is being offered and so that the business can make sales.
Customer service is another responsibility the business has to deal with on a daily basis. The owner of Preet Sports Canada emphasized how important customer service is when starting a business and how it is still vital for a business to grow. He discussed how when a customer is to call the shop or arrive to the shop, making them feel comfortable is vital as it makes the customers trust you much more. He also discussed how making a good first impression is extremely when talking to customers as it is often first impressions which decide for people whether to be a customer of the store, or not. As Preet Sports Canada is based in the city of Brampton, the owners also talked about how knowing different languages was huge in respects of customer service as Brampton is a very multicultural city. He discussed how Punjabi is a language largely used in the city and how it is vital for him and his colleagues to know the language of Punjabi to fully reach out to customers in Canada. This gave the owner the responsibility of learning more about his community and to find out what languages were largely spoken so that the business would be appealing to a large …show more content…
audience in Brampton. The owner is also responsible for which workers the business is to hire to help the business thrive. Preet Sports Canada does not have many workers, although the workers they have meet the criteria needed to fulfill the job description as they also speak Punjabi and work well with the public.
The owner has a huge responsibility as to what types of workers are to be hired as these workers are often the face of the business as they work with the public more than the actual owner does. A huge responsibility the owner of Preet Sports Canada has also had to face involves the adaptation of the changing community. The owner talked about how the public often change their interest very frequently, demanding the business to keep up with their change in interest. These interests include new sports equipment or jerseys which interest the public, which demands the business to then keep up with these new interests. One example the owner gave was during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, as many of the public wanted Brazilian jerseys. This forced the business to buy many Brazilian jerseys to keep up with the demand of the public. This is also a great way to make profit, as the owner stated "If you are able to correctly predicts future interests, you can often make a huge profit". This all gives the owner the responsibilities of keeping up with the new interests and staying connected with the local community to ensure they keep up with
their new interests. Although the business must keep up with the new interests of the community, the business also has a huge responsibility of distributing a high quality of good to its customers. Since Preet Sports Canada sells equipment designed to help people prevent injuries from sports, Preet Sports Canada has a huge responsibility in obtaining the best possible quality products to sell off to their customers to ensure the safety of their customers, which will later bring back more business.
No matter your career, you will eventually run into a situation where an ethical or moral decision has to be made. I am planning on going into athletic training where many ethical dilemmas will surround the health or actions dealing with athletes. Here are three different scenarios I could face as an athletic trainer and how I would resolve each ethical issue.
In the data collection and manipulation of Sport T’s database, there are nine questions regarding the data that would be useful in improving company standards. What percentage of buyers purchase multiple items in one checkout? How much is the average full purchase from a customer? How many customers only purchase discounted items as opposed to full retail priced items? What is our Year-to-Date profits over expenses? What is our customer satisfaction ratio to unsatisfied customers? What is our average click-to-hit ratio on our online and social media advertisements? What is our average time from purchase to processing an order? What is our average time from processing an order to shipment? What is our average
Summary of the article – The researcher chose to analyze an area where the monopoly sport leagues hurt a bunch of different groups. They do this by controlling the competitive entry or putting specific holds on to a company through anticompetitive rules. This article uses government theories of antitrust liability to show how it effects sports fans and shows how new legislation could change that. Sports leagues have changed rules to make sure fans in all areas can enjoy everything sports have to offer to them. The different leagues have made agreements with each other to make sure fans get the best and most improved product at all times. (Ross 2001)
Own The Podium (OTP) is a NFPO whose mission is to offer support to Canadian national sport organizations with goal of achieving improved podium performances at the Olympic and Paralympic games. After failing to win gold medals in the first two Olympic Games held in Canada, the Canadian Olympic Committee created OTP with the vision to make Canada the world leader in high performance sports at the Olympics. OTP’s mandate includes “prioritizing investment strategies by making funding recommendations using evidence based, expert driven, targeted and collaborative approach. (CITE FS)” Most of the funds from OTP come from the Government of Canada (91%) and the remaining from the Canadian Olympic Committee (8%). The funds are used to achieve three main operational objectives of Podium Excellence, System Excellence and Sport Science and Research Excellence.
The failure of the NFL to disclose credible research linking concussions to permanent, hidden long-term brain injury to the players can be interpreted as both ethical and unethical. Ethical theories and traps influenced the NFL’s decision. Not disclosing the research is considered moral by the ethical theory of utilitarianism. Utilitarian ethics considers the best decision is one which maximizes overall happiness and minimizes overall pain is more ethical. Utilitarianism’s goal is to produce the best outcome for the largest number of people. The NFL’s failure to reveal the research connecting concussion to permanent brain injury’s is in line with utilitarian ethics. A larger population benefits from football compared to the small number of
In this assignment I will be talking about the four legislative factors that influence health and safety in sport. On each of the four legislative factors I will be describing them in more details also I will be giving examples for each of them. Here are four legislative factors that I will be talking about:
The Health and fitness industry have many ethical issues involved which was very interesting to me. I have never purchased a membership at a health club, but from the reading I learned a lot about how they operate. It amazed me that health clubs push their sales representatives to get 200-300 new members a month (Amend, 1992). This is a large amount of people for such a short amount a time, which means some members are not fully aware of the fine print of the membership agreement. Also the reading mentions that more than half of instructors at these clubs do not have valid certification (Copeland et al, 1988),. This is unethical because the members pay each month for the service of a qualified staff member to assist them in exercise and fitness. Safety of the members could also be at risk working out with a non-qualified trainer. Learning how these companies do business make me want to hold off as long as possible to join a gym.
Moral reasoning requires athletes to think about what is a good decision and is this decision right or wrong, strategic decisions are based on what advantage will this bring to the individual. Moral decisions produce a variety of different outcomes and two common areas of moral thinking include consequentialism and deontological theory. Both consequentialism and deontologicalism have strengths and weaknesses and both theories are used in a variety of situations, in regards to sports ethics.
“...we play all over Canada in the pre-season and the support is crazy. The fans are knowledgeable and you can see their passion for the game.” - Masai Ujiri (Gatehouse, 2016). Masai Ujiri’s response when a reporter asked him about managing, the only National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise in Canada. His response displays the increased support for the Toronto Raptors and the rise in popularity of Canadian basketball since he has taken the general manager position (Gatehouse, 2016).
This report will focus primarily on the internal and external macroeconomic analysis coined with a critical analysis of Sports Directs business and corporate level strategy before recommendations are made. This will highlight how the organisation can sustain their competitive position in todays increasingly globalised, hypercometitive market (Hanssen-Bauer & Snow , 1996).
In the sports world, as much as in the political, social or corporate world, ethics is put to the test at all times. Most athletes spend their career trying to overcome many barriers in order to gain notoriety and achieve good results with the objective of winning titles and, especially, to have great future opportunities, as for example, being awarded with an athletic scholarship.
Nike does not merely sell products these days. They spend billions of dollars for advertising contracts with famous athletes like Tiger Woods to increase the value of the brand by associating the factor of lifestyle to their products. The company's image has been damaged many times by press releases as well as a variety of NGOs who have long pointed out the inhumane working conditions in the production facilities of sporting goods manufacturers. This leads to the question whether should Nike orientate the regulations of the suppliers to the labor standards in their respective countries or those in the United States? The labor conditions are so inhumane that Nike at least should try to converse to the US standard to improve the situation. The following analysis of an abstract of Nikes’ Responsibility Concept, including SHAPE and their Code of Conduct, should give an insight into the difficulties of the Sweatshops.
As a multinational company, Puma strive to be the most desirable and sustainable sportlifestyle company in the world (Puma 2012, p. 9) and contributes in creating a more sustainable future for the generations to come (Puma 2012, p. 15). To meet these goals, the company claims that it has referred its business decisions to the four values of PUMAVision (fair, honest, positive and creative), implemented PUMAVision’s programs, which are PUMA.Safe, PUMA.Peace and PUMA.Creative, (Puma 2012, p. 10) and set its own code of ethics as well as its supplier’...
Sports have been around for thousands of years. The history of sports in United States began back in the 1840s. United States is a very unique country when we look at its sports, just like every country has a different structure of sports so does US. This paper will be taking about the Sports Organizations and Governance, the sports industry, sports organizations, and Structure of sports in the United States. It will also cover the Sport in the United States vs. Other Western Democracies by taking a look at the State Political, historical context, team objectives, and sports organizations. It will also cover the uniqueness of American sport as well as cover the mass participation and give recommendations on how to increase participation and success.
Ethical and moral quandaries are present at all levels of organized sports (DeSensi, 2010). Athletic directors and sporting managers face many demands each day surrounding their job responsibilities; budgets, parents, coaches, student-athletes, office personal, facility management, public relations. Each of these areas and many more require a considerate, level minded, comprehensive ethical and moral response when a challenge arises to develop an equitable response and solution (DeSensi, 2010). Hence, having a plan of action to handle ethical and moral issues may be essential to creating a culture of integrity in athletic organization.