Sport Management - MSport

Knowledge and understanding

You gain knowledge and understanding of: 

• Management – the processes, procedures and practices for effective management of organisations, including theories, models, frameworks, tasks and roles of management together with rational analysis and processes of decision making within organisations and in relation to the external.
• Concepts and marketing models within a sporting context to include the role of media and sponsorship.
• Management of employees in Sports Industries.
• Within the framework of the areas of - Organisations’, ‘External Environment’ and ‘Management’ graduates will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: Markets, Customers, People, Operations, Communications and IT, Business Policy and Strategy, Contemporary and Pervasive Issues.       
• Leadership theory and styles and the relevant models.
• Contemporary and pervasive issues deepening and/or integrating, core knowledge.
• Social processes which influence individual and group behaviour.
• The development of appropriate strategies within changing environments to meet stakeholders interests.
• The use of a range of marketing and/or business research methods and techniques (qualitative and quantitative) and an understanding of the situations in which they should be used for providing marketers and/or managers with information to make informed decisions.

Intellectual skills

You gain the following intellectual skills:

• Effectively apply the skills needed for academic study and enquiry including critical evaluation.
• Effective self-management in terms of time, planning and behaviour, motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise.
• Apply knowledge to the solution of familiar and unfamiliar problems, either independently or with others, in order to develop reasoned arguments and challenge assumptions.
• Self-appraise and reflect on practice.
• Critically evaluate arguments and evidence.
• Recognise and respond to moral, legal, ethical and safety issues which directly pertain to the context of study.
• Analytical skills necessary for the analysis of problems and the application of a systematic approach towards the identification of appropriate strategies and/or tactics.
• Critical thinking and creativity; managing creative processes in self and/or others; organising thoughts; analysis, synthesis and critical appraisal.
• Conduct research into business/management issues for project work, using a variety of sources and appropriate methodologies that inform the learning process.

Subject-specific skills

You gan the following subject-specific skills:

1. Create, evaluate and assess options, in a range of business situations, applying concepts and knowledge appropriately.
2. Communicate effectively, orally, and in writing, about business issues.
3. Ability to conduct research into business and management issues, either individually or as part of a team. Requires familiarity with a range of business data, research sources and appropriate methodologies.
4. Apply and evaluate relevant managerial skills to a range of vocational and professional situations.
5. Identify, formulate and solve business /decision making problems using appropriate qualitative and quantitative tools.
6. Ethical and value management recognising ethical situations, applying ethical and organisational values to situations.
7. Problem solving and decision making, establishing criteria, using appropriate decision techniques including identifying, formulating and solving business/management problems; the ability to create, identify and evaluate options.

Transferable skills

You gain the following transferable skills:

• Communicate effectively orally and in writing, using media appropriate for the purpose.
• Work in groups effectively and apply other inter-personal skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Be an effective self-manager of time, so as to plan and deliver required outputs effectively.
• Identify and make effective use of information from various sources to assess ideas.
• Apply numeracy and IT skills appropriately.
• Be an effective communicator: listening, negotiating and persuading or influencing others; oral and written communication using a range of media, including the preparation of business/management reports.
• Personal effectiveness, self- awareness and self-management; sensitivity to diversity in people and in different situations, the ability to continue learning.