Modern Trends in Sports Maintenance and Supervision
One of the major factors militating against the development of sports in Nigeria today is lack of effective management. A lot of solutions are being proffered by concerned and patriotic Nigerians daily to bail us out the quagmire. One of such solutions is this text entitled "Modern Trends in Sports Administration and Control". It is written by Dr. Joseph Awoyinfa, a lecturer in the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria; a researcher and educational consultant. I was the person invited by the author and the university to review the book when it was presented to the public on December 4, 2008 in Nigeria.
In accordance with Awoyinfa, this can be a truism everywhere around the world that sports is a reference point trouble which cannot be prevented at assorted sectors around the overall economy and spheres of lifespan. The author adds that this text thus takes a critical look at topical issues in sports therapy and management, dwelling on theories and principles of modern trends in sports administration and maintenance such as authority, organization, organizing and commitment etc.
The text contains 16 chapters. Chapter one is christened "the concept of sports management". Here, Awoyinfa says management is a concept that implies different things to different people at different times, thus leading to its multiplicity of definitions. He explains that management has been variously described as an art, a science, a person or people, a discipline and a process.
This author expatiates that as an art, sports management is all about carrying out sports organisational functions and tasks through people; while as a science, sports management is about establishing sports philosophy, ideas, activities, principles, activities and values. As being an firm, determined by him, fitness control is defined as a means of developing professional structures together with venue influenced by a processes, projects, goal, objectives and goals.
Awoyinfa says as a person or group of people, sports management may refer to the head alone or to all the senior staff, committee, etc.; while as a discipline, management is a field of study with various information and information. The author illuminates that sports management as a process is about a systematic way of doing things. Awoyinfa highlights management functions in sports administration as staffing, organizing and organising directing/leading, handling, sychronisation, budgeting and analysis. On whom a sports manager is, this author educates that a sports manager is anyone at any level of sport organisation who directs
the efforts of other people towards the achievement of organisational goals sport-wise.
Chapter two is based on the subject matter of movements and development of sports management thought. Here, Awoyinfa discloses that the development of thoughts on sports management dates back to the days when people first attempted to accomplish goals by working together in a group. In his words, "There was serious thinking and theorising about managing many years before the dawn of the twentieth (20th) century, which marked the beginning of modern sports management thought. Major efforts to develop practices and principles of sports management began from the early twentieth (20th) century with the work of Frederick Taylor and Henri Fayol. The industrial revolution of the nineteenth (19th) century probably provided the climate for this very serious theorising."
Awoyinfa adds that since the turn of the 20th century, writers on sports management and business theory have been propounding different theories about how to manage task and people more comfortably and competently. This author educates that the three main schools of management thought are: the classical; the human-behavioural; and the integrative. Awoyinfa also highlights early sports management theorists; capabilities and rules of scientific management; appraisal of the scientific management theory, etc., in this chapter. 안전놀이터
Chapter three is thematically labelled "principles of sports management". In this chapter, the educational consultant explains that sports principles are the basic laws on which the practice of sports management is built. He adds that management principles must therefore be based on general terms for them to be applicable within sport organisations of varying shapes and sizes and identity. "Modern sports managers and managers are expected to be able to identify and use appropriate principles that are relevant to particular situations. " submits Awoyinfa, this is because no specific idea can accommodate all administrator predicaments.
He says the fundamental principles of sports are those applicable to all sports organisations and as a result of their general acceptability, they are sometimes referred to as "universal principles of sports management". This author expatiates that some of these principles are: responsibility; delegation of expert and interaction. Awoyinfa detects these as democracy, proper rights, our relations, awareness, humility, sympathy and sympathy, as respect humanitarian ideas of sporting handling.