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This assignment involves comparing leaders versus managers in today's sports industry.

For additional details, please refer to the Leaders vs. Managers Guidelines and Rubric document.

SPT 111 Leaders vs. Managers Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: This short paper assignment involves comparing leaders versus managers in today’s sports industry.

Prompt: Respond to the following questions, citing evidence from the Sports Business Journal the articles, or your textbook:

• What is your definition of a leader? How would you define a manager? Is there a distinction between the two in today’s sports industry? What are some

qualities and characteristics you learned growing up in relation to leadership in sports? Have you ever led a team? If so, were your leadership methods effective? In what ways, if any, did managing play a role?

• What is your assessment of leaders and managers in today’s sports industry? Can they coexist in today’s industry? Use specific examples to support your rationale.

• Do you consider yourself more of a leader or a manager? What are some of the traits and characteristics of a sports leader or manager that you possess? • Who is an effective sports leader in today’s industry? Who is an effective manager in sports? Do you model your own leadership/management traits

after this sports professional?

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value Leaders Versus

Managers Compares the difference between leaders and managers in today’s sports industry, citing evidence from scholarly sources

Insufficiently compares the difference between leaders and managers in today’s sports industry

Does not compare the difference between leaders and managers

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Coexistence of Leaders and Managers

Explains if leaders and managers can coexist using specific evidence to support rationale

Explanation of the potential coexistence of leaders and managers is lacking in detail and does not include evidence

Explanation of the potential coexistence of leaders and managers is not evident

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Reflection of Leadership and

Management Skills

Reflects upon personal characteristics of leadership and management abilities using examples

Reflects upon personal characteristics of leadership and management abilities but does not include examples

Does not reflect upon personal characteristics of leadership and management abilities

20

Effective Sports Leaders and

Managers

Identifies an effective sports leader and an effective sports manager using specific examples to support selection

Identifies an effective sports leader and an effective sports manager but does not include evidence or examples to support selection

Does not identify an effective sports leader and manager

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SPT 111 Leaders vs. Managers Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: This short paper assignment involves comparing leaders versus managers in today’s sports industry.

Prompt: Respond to the following questions, citing evidence from the Sports Business Journal the articles, or your textbook:

• What is your definition of a leader? How would you define a manager? Is there a distinction between the two in today’s sports industry? What are some

qualities and characteristics you learned growing up in relation to leadership in sports? Have you ever led a team? If so, were your leadership methods

effective? In what ways, if any, did managing play a role?

• What is your assessment of leaders and managers in today’s sports industry? Can they coexist in today’s industry? Use specific examples to support your

rationale.

• Do you consider yourself more of a leader or a manager? What are some of the traits and characteristics of a sports leader or manager that you possess?

• Who is an effective sports leader in today’s industry? Who is an effective manager in sports? Do you model your own leadership/management traits

after this sports professional?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font,

one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Leaders Versus

Managers

Compares the difference between

leaders and managers in today’s

sports industry, citing evidence from

scholarly sources

Insufficiently compares the difference

between leaders and managers in

today’s sports industry

Does not compare the difference

between leaders and managers

20

Coexistence of

Leaders and

Managers

Explains if leaders and managers can

coexist using specific evidence to

support rationale

Explanation of the potential

coexistence of leaders and managers

is lacking in detail and does not

include evidence

Explanation of the potential

coexistence of leaders and managers

is not evident

20

Reflection of

Leadership and

Management Skills

Reflects upon personal characteristics

of leadership and management

abilities using examples

Reflects upon personal characteristics

of leadership and management

abilities but does not include

examples

Does not reflect upon personal

characteristics of leadership and

management abilities

20

Effective Sports

Leaders and

Managers

Identifies an effective sports leader

and an effective sports manager

using specific examples to support

selection

Identifies an effective sports leader

and an effective sports manager but

does not include evidence or

examples to support selection

Does not identify an effective sports

leader and manager

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