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Culminating Activity (Option #2) : Sport Management Analysis:(Los Angeles Rams)
You will assume that you have been contracted as a management consultant to a sport organization (community, collegiate, Olympic, professional etc…) Note: your present work setting is not appropriate for this assignment. Your task is to conduct a comprehensive background search on the organization and provide a critical analysis of the sport organization regarding the following:
The chosen organization is the Los Angeles Rams.
Internal Environment (management, mission, resources, structure, and systems process)
External Environment (customers, competition, suppliers, workforce, shareholders, society, technology, governments, and economy)
Quality of Service Delivery (summarize and offer suggestions for improvement)
Paper Guidelines:
- Title Page
- Section One: Mission Statement/Vision Statement
Identify the organization’s mission/vision statement and provide a clear overall identity of the organization.
- Section Two: Internal Constituents
Management Structure-What is the management structure (owner, president, vice president, department heads etc.)? Who specifically manages what departments, and what is the chain-of-command within the organization? Provide a structure chart that clearly identifies how the organization is managed. Discuss who is in power, their position, and their length of service.
Resources- What type of resources exist for the organization? Refer to parent/sister companies and how they qualify the funding (tax write off, excess of funds cover the other company or is it a self sustaining organization). Funding streams are also included and should be discussed if they apply (on-line marketplace, independent donations, scheduled fundraisers like golf tournaments and/or philanthropists funding).
Systems Process- What are the current systems process? How does the company function to exist (is this a non-profit or for profit organization)? What are the processes in place to assure its success?
- Section Three: External Constituents
Primary Constituents- Who are they? Analyze who are the paying customers (male/female, age, ethnicity, sport alliance) and the retention plans to keep paying customers supporting the organization.
Competition- Identify the competition to the organization and why knowing key facts is helpful to the companies success (or failure). List the suppliers to the organization that provide product (in-kind or support in other mediums like IT) .
Workforce- Who does this include? What role does the ordinary employee play in the big picture of the organization?
Technology- This is key!! Identify and discuss the different technology platforms in use and how each one contributes to the success of the organization (i.e. increase ticket sales, provide more marketplace purchasing, brings awareness to the overall brand).
- Section Four: Quality of Service Delivery
In regards to service delivery, what areas are consistently on target? Which areas need improvement? Be sure to list reasons why improvement is needed.
- Section Five: Conclusion and Application
Provide an overall analysis of the sport organization including a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) and what you would suggest/recommend for success.
- Section Five: References
Provide a minimum of six references that you referred to throughout your paper.
***For websites, follow this APA format.
Name of website (date). Title of the page where information was located. Retrieved from: provide URL
The textbook is the 5th edition of “Contemporary Sport Management’ by Paul Pederson and has to use that for reference.
Sample Solution
Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell.
In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.
God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.
Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.
To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.
References
Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.
Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
