Sports Management: Chapter 11

For this assignment, you will be answering some of the Time-Out questions from the chapter. Number and type out the question (or copy and paste it from here) and answer the questions in essay form - complete sentences. Make sure that your answers are complete and detailed.

Each answer should be a minimum of 100 words. If you use a source other than the text, cite the source at the end of your answer.

The purpose of the assignment is for you to see how motivation and the theories discussed in the chapter affect you and your position.

1. Where in the hierarchy of needs are you for a specific professional aspect of your life? For a specific aspect of a sport? Explain why you are at this level.

2. List the maintenance and motivator factors in your current job or team and rate your level of dissatisfaction or satisfaction in each continuum. Give reasons for your rating. 

3. Explain how your need for achievement, power, or affiliation affects your behavior at your job or on your team.

4. Give an example of how your perception of equity or inequity affected your motivation and performance in a job or team. Were you under-rewarded, over-rewarded, or equitably rewarded?

5. (Actually 6) Give an example of how your expectancy has affected your motivation oat your job or team. Specify your expectancy and valence.