Positive Sport Organizational Insights

<p>This book is a concise and accessible introduction to positive organizational behavior in sport a new and dynamic approach to sport management. </p><p>Clearly explaining core concepts including the central concept of psychological capital the book shows how ‘positive sport organizations’ (PSO) can deliver improved performance and enhance employee well-being. Standing at the intersection of positive psychology and theories of organizational behavior the PSO approach focuses on the development of the person within the organization – their human strengths and psychological capacities – in contrast to traditional approaches that have a more limited emphasis on human capital or social capital. The book takes a close look at attributes including passion grit and a capacity for innovation that characterize the effective employee in the modern fast-paced sport business environment and that can be developed through PSO and it explains how employee flourishing and corporate social responsibility programmes can be mutually reinforcing. </p><p>With examples and cases from contemporary sport business in every chapter this is illuminating reading for any student researcher policy-maker or practitioner with an interest in sport business and management organizational behavior corporate social responsibility human resource management or human flourishing.</p>