Management concept

Management concept

Management concept is the process of formulating policies that can improve people’s general living conditions. Different activities or organizations may require different management concepts to remain relevant or be competitive in the market. Failure to timely implement useful management concepts may results in severe pain to individuals or losses on any organization. The scholarly paper analyses the recent management issues related to the basketball sport (The NBA)

One of the recent management issues in basketball sports is the failure of the governing body to predetermine how to fit the NBA players are before playing particular games. This implies that most of the superstar players regularly undergo through both physical and psychological when they play back to back games. A good example is a scenario that happened to the former most value Player (MVP) Kahwi Leonard. Leonard is currently playing for the Los Angeles Clippers. Last season the superstar played for the Toronto Rapture, where he helped them win the NBA championship.

Last year November Leonard did not play for the Los ANGLES Clippers in the game against Utah (Pelton and Arnovitz,2019, November 13). The NBA management did not timely realize the health-related issues the player was going through, which led to the Leonard developing a tendon injury on his left knee. The same scenario happened on the player back during the 2017-2018 season, which made him miss several NBA games.

The management concept related to this Kahwi Leonard scenario is the Leadership and Decision making. This is the concept that allows the leaders to though their management skills to come up with the most appropriate decisions. Through this concept (Leadership and Decision making), the NBA management could have come up with an early agreement not to allow too much pressure on the player to take care of the player’s health condition.

According to Pelton and Arnovitz (2019, November 13) currently, the NBA management has come up with the NBA Load Management Plan that deals with such situations in basketball. The main of the NBA Load Management Plan is a management initiative that takes care of the player’s health conditions. It asses both the physical and psychological nature of all the NBA players and use the result to determine the amount of pressure these players should be subjected to. The initiative is also keen on the time taken when players play the game(minute plates), the number of physical activities they engage in during their routine training programs, and the time taken for the player to rest i.e., sleep. According to Pelton and Arnovitz (2019, November 13), members of this initiative work hand in hand with the team coaches and sports scientists to determine whether players are working beyond their required limits.

If I were in the NBA management team, I would try my best to increase the sleeping period to all NBA players. Currently, all NBA players do not get enough sleep due to their tight schedules. This involves too much traveling and too much pressure this player experiences. I would also reduce the number of games the players ply within a week. Usually, the NBA players play up to 4 games in five days. I would reduce this number to two. This would immensely reduce the number of injuries this player experiences in their professional sports carrier. Besides, I would also design a team of professionals who would be critically assessing the dietary consumption of all the players in the NBA. A balanced diet is likely to increase the players’ health condition and, hence, make them physically fit. This would result in a decline in the number of injuries experienced by these players during both the regular and the playoffs season.

Basketball is one of the most popular sports across the world. The player is paid hefty wages from the various endorsement programs they engage in. However, every stakeholder in the NBA needs to ensure that all the players’ health conditions are well maintained. They should also be advised on how well to spend their leisure time and, most importantly, the importance of sleep in their daily routine.

Therefore, it is necessary for all the management team in any sporting activity to effectively come up with measures that can help their players remain physically fit. Different management concepts can be applied to different scenarios or issues facing a given sport, such as the Human relations management concept, the body of knowledge concept, and the managerial concept (Pelton and Arnovitz, 2019, November 13). Also, the productive managerial concept and the administrative personnel concept can be applied where possible. Proper application of management concepts can play a vital role in coming up with the best decision-making policies. These policies can not only help a given company but also can take part in improving the living conditions of everyone involved. Useful management concepts can also alter the ethical and moral behavior of a person to make them fit any changes in society. Singhal (2016, August 25) argues that this would eventually make them become acceptable members of the community.