Sport Methodology I - Sport Management

Code:

217

Acronym:

217

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Sports Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCD	28	First Degree in Sports Sciences (2011/2012)	2	-	10	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Objectives:
- To enhance the students formation in the following intervention areas of sports management:
- Communication inside the sports organizations
- Typology, space organization and location, planning and management of sports facilities
- Human resources management and management skills development
- Strategic thinking e analysis and planning skills


Competencies and learning results:
- To recognize and implement the essential management indicators of sports organizations:
- Human resources management
- Facilities management
- Strategies elaboration
- Communication plans design
- Analysis models construction and implementation

Learning outcomes and competences

Recognize and operationalize indicators scents management of sports organizations:
- Managing people
- Managing facilities
- Develop strategies
- Create communication plans
- Build and deploy analytical models

Working method

Presencial

Program

Presentation:
- Theoretical lessons structure
- Group formation for the practical sessions works:
- Management games
- Focus groups
- Seminar
- International videoconference
- Outdoor formation


Sport communication strategies:
- Global communication concept
- How to perform a good communication
- Internal and external communication plans
- Public relations
- Media
- News characteristics
- Media covering
- Relationship with the Media
- Media folder


Sports facilities typology and characteristics:
- Sports facilities concept
- Sports facilities main typologies presentation (Basic recreational or formative sports facilities; specialized or mono-functional sports facilities; special sports facilities for sports events; natural spaces for leisure and sports)


Territorial organization indicators for sports facilities and profitability strategies, sports facilities construction fases
- Indicators for artificial sports facilities organization
- Sports facilities classification (Atlas Desportivo Nacional)
- Sports facilities main characteristics


Swimming pools
- Swimming pools history in Portugal
- Swimming pools classification
- Swimming pools management systems


Sports halls
- Sports halls main typologies
- Multiuse: sport and non sport events
- Multi-functional: different sports
- Mono-functional: only one sport
- Open air sports facilities
- Tennis fields


Stadiums
- Stadiums main typologies
- Football and rugby fields
- Hockey fields
- Athletics fields


Construction of Sports facilities
- Planning
- Decision
- Conception
- Contest
- Execution
- Management


Sports equipments management
- Sports clothes
- Games equipment
- Sports material
- Sports machines
- Technologic material
- Communication material


Human resources management
- Management and human resources theories
- Organizational processes and contexts
- Skills


Leadership
- Leader profile theories
- Behavioural theories
- Contingence theories
- Leadership implicit theories


Coaching
- Concepts
- Objectives
- Processes
- Practical model
- Types
- Applications
- Benefits

Strategies and planning
- Concepts
- Nature
- Planning levels and characteristics
- Planning basic elements
- SWOT analysis
- BCG analysis
- Balanced Scored Card
- Business Intelligence
- Main authors

Mandatory literature

João Bilhim; Teoria Organizacional - Estruturas e Pessoas, Instituo Superiro de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2008. ISBN: 972-8726-75-9
João Abreu de Faria Bilhim; Gestão Estratégica de Recursos Humanos, Instituo Superiro de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2009. ISBN: 978-989-646-023-5
Luís Miguel Cunha; Os Espaços do Desporto - Uma Gestão para o Desenvolvimento Humano, Almedina, 2007. ISBN: ISBN 9789724032450
Gustavo Pires; Agôn Gestão do Desporto- o jogo de Zeus, Porto Editora, 2007. ISBN: 978-972-0-04151-7
Carlos Alberto Figueiredo da Silva; Gestão do Esporte e Hélice Tríplice, H.P. Comunicações Editora, 2011. ISBN: 978-85-7576-156-4

Complementary Bibliography

José Saraiva Cabral; Organização e Gestão da Manutenção - Dos conceitos à prática, Lidel , 1998. ISBN: 972-757-052-6
Vitorino de Matos Beleza, Rosária Santos, Marta Pinto; Piscinas- Tratamentos de águas e utilização de energia, Edições Politema, 2007. ISBN: 978-972-8688-52-3
Sarmento José Pedro 070; Carta Desportiva Municipal do Porto
Fernando Telles Ribeiro; NOVOS ESPAÇOS PARA ESPORTE E LAZER - PLANEJAMENTO E GESTÃO DE INSTALAÇÕES ESPORTIVAS, ATIVIDADES FÍSICAS, EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA E LAZER - 2011, Icone Editora, 2011

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, classroom work and practical preparation and organization

keywords

Social sciences > Economics > Management studies > Organizational science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	8,00
Trabalho de campo	16,00
Trabalho escrito	8,00
Estudo autónomo	118,00
Frequência das aulas	120,00
Total:	270,00

Eligibility for exams

Completion of two written tests.
Practical works during practical lessons
Event organization during practical lessons
Minimum number of presences during practical lessons

Calculation formula of final grade

Average sum of the two tests and practice notes

Examinations or Special Assignments

Participation in the events organized by the various groups of the practical classes and participation in the organization of one of them.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Participation at the events of other work groups, during practical lessons.
Participation and organization of one event, during practical lessons.

Observations

The practical works, performed during practical sessions (Management games, Focus groups, Seminar, International videoconference, Outdoor formation), are an important moment of the students formation, because they really get involved and enthusiastic about it, so, it should be continued.