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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I have to start out with I didn't know much about this subject, but I do love to read to learn about things I don't know. I learned a lot about what is have ethics in a business where little ethics are these days. The book brought up so many good things about what it means to really have virtue and character and how to use your own judgement in a lot of situations. I believe that many of the ideas that the authors had could be used in today's society as well as sports management. I suggest that anyone who loves sports or just loves to read to pick up this book. I have already passed it on to someone who is teaching high school sports and she has really found some parts of it useful. ( )This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book was a very helpful guide to understanding more about what lies behind the normal sports management business. It brought up some interesting points about the ethics in sports management and how to implemet them. I found this book useful as I currently work at a fitness facility and have seen some of the issues the book discussed. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Straight forward overview with examples of ethics issues in Sports Management. Valuable for students of Sports Management but does not have the depth or breadth to be of value beyond that domain but of good value for those who are interested in that domain. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Ethical problems are cropping up in sports all over the country and at almost every level. From the New Orleans bounty program. To recruiting scandals at major colleges. Ethical dilemmas and lapses are costing people jobs, money and trust.The authors tackle this issue in a philosophical way. Exploring ethics and other big ideas in abstract and then going into more detail later. It is not perfect, maybe three authors is one too many, could have been a bit smoother on the transitions. While not everyone will agree with their ideas, they are one of the few people actively writing about this topic, to help players, coaches and administrators deal with ethical dilemmas that they will face. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. So I just got this book yesterday (after McFarland had sent me the wrong book, which should have told me something) and after reading the first chapter I have enough to review it.For one, they make numerous grammar errors, which is unacceptable in a text purporting to teach people something; they appear as amateurs and seem intent on proving this going forward. Secondly, their definition of "the good society" or "the just society" entails the following two elements: 1) that the society "provide the most extensive set of liberties possible to every member of the society"; and 2) that the society find ways to "balance inequalities and provide equal access." There re two enormous problems with this definition that I can see right off the bat, the first of which is that societies cannot PROVIDE liberties, they can only ALLOW them. You cannot force someone to choose between two options. Surely we've all tried this and know it doesn't work. But the second problem is even worse here, and this one is that equal access is woefully incomplete. Equal access to what? Some societies consider themselves just if they provide equal access to resources (e.g. Communist societies); some consider themselves just if they provide equal access to opportunities (e.g. The U.S.). WIthout defining what we are to have equal access to, we can take society in vastly different directions. The third problem, just in the first chapter, mind you, is the most devastating and absurd. They present a case study of a university, claiming that its football programs are funded much more extensively than its other programs, and hence its men's programs are funded more than its women's programs. They assert that this is unethical and claim they are attempting to give a "rebuttal" to each of three arguments about the case, namely that it is ethical, that it is unethical, and that it's unethical but can be justified effectively. What they do is rebut the first, then do absolutely nothing to rebut the second (which is their favored assumption),, and rebut the third. And this AFTER detailing at length the importance of shedding biases before undertaking a quest of moral reasoning! They further claim, and I quote: "Even though gender equity is supposedly required by law, the way football is supported is inequitable. Therefore men in football are special. This argument rests on the assumption that men have more of some quality than women. More of what? We aren't sure of the answer to this question. Culturally and institutionally, funding of football programs is inequitable. If we can access the quality that men have more of, then we may have the reason why inequity is acceptable." Now I don't want to come off as sexist because I'm not, but these three women prove everything that's wrong with our system of allowing women to make arguments and claim preference over men in intellectual and professional acumen (look at the employment statistics these days if you haven't recently). The outrage is ridiculous, and there's really no sense in getting into this because if they're too dumb to make sense of something so obvious then nothing can persuade them. Nevertheless I feel it prudent to carry out my case to the fullest, so that others do not doubt my candor in presenting this analysis. Anyone with two eyes and a quarter of the functioning brain of a monkey can see that men have more SIZE and SPEED than do women--that is to say, more ATHLETIC ABILITY--and that therefore 1) athletic programs should be geared more towards men than towards women, and 2) doing so is more engaging to outside observers, making the sports more marketable and hence the universities themselves more marketable. Only in our ridiculously unintelligent society can this book be published, just as only in our unintelligent society can we insist upon creating more academic programs for those who are not intellectually qualified. The reality is that more men are better qualified for training in athletics than are women, and there are far more opportunities for men in professional sports (especially football, where each pro team in the NFL has 53 roster slots, and beyond that there's Arena Football and the CFL, etc) than there are for women, and therefore wasting energy and resources on training women to the same degree as men is insppropriate, just as wasting energy and resources on training imbeciles to study history--or better yet, math--at the college level is inappropriate. Alas, such is our system and such our lot. What a joke. no reviews | add a review
"Issues addressed are violence in sports, racial and gender equity, performance-enhancing drugs, academics, commercialization, etc. Specific examples from real-world sports situations and reflective questions encourage students to think critically. Explores practical application ethics at all competitive levels, giving future athletic professionals the tools needed to navigate the tricky waters of ethics in sport"--Provided by publisher. No library descriptions found. |
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