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Leisure Services Management, Second Edition, prepares students for
the challenges they’ll face as entry- to mid-level recreation and
leisure managers. The book outlines the essential knowledge and
skills that successful managers need to have and helps students
build those competencies by encouraging them to think as managers.
The text’s activities, projects, and examples help students
connect the competencies to real-world situations. Leisure Services
Management begins by presenting a firm foundation of
competency-based management. Students will learn what management
is, what the manager’s role is, and how their work affects their
agency and their customers. They will also explore specific
management areas such as marketing, financial management, human
resources, employee development, communication, and evaluation.
Throughout the text, students will be encouraged to apply their own
experiences to the concepts being discussed to deepen their
understanding of the profession. For each chapter, the authors
provide experiential learning activities that simulate real
on-the-job situations. Each of these activities asks students to
assume one of the many roles of a new manager. They’ll learn to
deal with day-to-day management activities by completing work
assignments and projects similar to those they’ll assume as a
manager. The activities will help students develop the competencies
they’ll need in order to meet the challenges of this evolving
field. New to this edition of Leisure Services Management are the
following student-friendly features: Updated sidebars in which
professionals in the field offer early career advice for future
managers Real examples from all three sectors—public, nonprofit,
and commercial—giving a broad perspective of parks and
recreation, tourism, sport, therapeutic recreation, and outdoor
recreation International perspectives and examples, encouraging
students to think globally Information about the exam for becoming
a Certified Park and Recreation Professional (CPRP) The text also
includes a web study guide, which includes links to sample forms
from the actual files of leisure managers to assist students in
understanding and using important management tools. With an
overview of key concepts by chapter, detailed case studies, a
glossary, and a competency scorecard, the web study guide will help
students build their knowledge of the content area, apply the
information learned to their current work environment or a future
internship, and prepare for future certifications. The
competency-driven approach of Leisure Services Management, Second
Edition, assists readers in gaining the knowledge and practicing
the skills needed to begin a career in leisure management.
Bolstered by the practical information in this text, new managers
can contribute to the success of their organization as they enjoy
the challenges and rewards of their new position.
There are more opportunities than ever for employment in
recreational sport, which means the need to prepare students with a
solid foundation of the design, delivery, and management of
recreational sport has never been more critical. Recreational Sport
is designed precisely with that need in mind. This text provides a
contemporary perspective of recreational sport management, offering
a comprehensive picture of recreational sport management for people
in or entering all sectors of recreation and leisure, including
public, nonprofit, private, and commercial. “We saw a need for
broad-based recreational sport programming that reflects the myriad
of recreational sport activities and opportunities that are out
there,” says lead author Robert Barcelona. “To meet those
increased needs and interests, people need to have an array of
programming and management skills in recreational sport.”
Barcelona and his coauthors help readers gain those skills in part
by simplifying the complicated process of designing and delivering
programs in various settings in recreation and leisure services.
They present a macrocosm view of recreational sport in
communities—a view that reflects the most current,
application-based research in the field. Their text places
recreational sport squarely in the middle of the recreation and
leisure curriculum and is supported by the recreational sport core
competencies as developed by Barcelona himself. Those competencies
are based on what recreational sport managers need to know and be
able to do to grow and succeed in the profession, and they connect
with the NIRSA recreational sport competencies developed in 2013.
In addition, Recreational Sport offers the following: • Coverage
for all age groups and sectors in a range of settings and contexts
for recreational sport • International perspectives to offer
students great insights into career opportunities • The latest
theory, research, and real-world approaches to help both students
and professionals who program sports • Case studies of real-world
issues in recreational sport and examples of theory-to-practice
applications The text comes with an array of online ancillaries
that will prove invaluable to both instructors and students. The
instructor guide supports and extends the chapter content and
offers numerous ideas for learning activities, projects, and topics
for papers. It also supplies chapter summaries, glossary terms, and
links to websites that contain information for both instructors and
students. The test package has multiple-choice, true–or-false,
matching, and short–answer questions that can interface with
learning management systems, and the presentation package offers a
visual overview of the material to help students retain the
concepts. “In teaching recreational sport for many years, I know
that students first need to grasp the big picture of recreational
sports,” Barcelona says. “We deliver that big picture in
addition to information on design, delivery, and management that
every student needs to know to succeed, regardless of what
recreational sport organization he or she is a part of.” That
big-picture element, along with the cutting-edge information on
program design, delivery, and management,, sets this book apart. In
the three parts of the book, students will be able to do the
following: • Be grounded in the philosophical concepts that
define the field • Learn about the core competencies they need to
know to deliver successful programs and events • Gain insights
about the settings and contexts where recreational sport happens
and learn about key ideas, issues, and career opportunities in the
field Recreational Sport is a textbook critical to students’
future success in recreational sport management, offering the
big-picture view of the field while offering practical guidance in
and real-world examples of successful design, delivery, and
management of recreational sport programming.
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