John Bosman

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• Commented on Instituting a new MLB corporate anti-doping culture
  I like your plan to change Major League Baseball's culture. I never thought about it before, but focusing on whole teams rather than individual players makes a lot of sense. Holding a team accountable for a players action puts a...
• Commented on Personal Organizational Effectiveness Philosophy
  It seems to me that when measuring organizational effectiveness, the goal attainment approach is useful, but shouldn't be the only determinant of effectiveness. Sure you may be meeting all your goals, but at what cost to the organization? Are you...
• Commented on Decision Making within sports
  I agree, just because the factors are unique and may not apply to an organization out side of sports doesn't mean the decision making process should be conducted in a different or unique manner. Just like a law firm may...
• Commented on 10-19 Blog: Conflict
  Vertical conflict seems to be the predominant form of conflict in sports organizations, but horizontal conflict is also a common sight. In the Raiders organization, you have coaches fighting each other. An example from a little higher in the employee...
• Commented on Organizational Decision Making
  Analyzing alternatives is something I feel is too often over looked in organizational decision making. Many times it seems they feel something is too good to pass up or something or are pressured into it. This is very common within...
• Commented on Leadership
  I like the example of Al Davis. When you hear other NFL players talk about the Raiders organization, you hear that they feel sorry for the players stuck in Oakland, especially the dedicated, hard working players. That organization is basically...
• Commented on Organizational Culture
  I agree that defining the culture is important in understanding how an organization operates, but sometimes it is difficult to actually define the culture. Sometimes organizations have multiple cultures, as in one structured spatially. Having branches in multiple geographic regions...
• Commented on Organizational Change
  I really like the first two sentences. Change is never ending, and in a sports organization, it is something that is almost always publicized, scrutinized and basically put under a microscope by the media. Change in involving people seems to...
• Commented on Blog #9: Athletic Department Merger
  I agree that the theme was more on the topic of conflict and change rather than organization and management. It seemed to me, based on Mr. Maturi's speech, that his skills are geared more towards conflict resolution. He doesn't seem...
• Commented on 12/8/09
  I also thought that the Pirates and Raiders presentations did a really good job of describing and providing examples of ineffective organizations. The recommendations were what really stuck out to me. They have both been perennial losers as of late,...
• Posted 12/8 Presentations to Organization and Management of Sport
  The presentations I found most intriguing today were the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Charlotte Bobcats presentations.  What was interesting from the Pirates presentation was that the Steelers and Penguins were both a strength for the Pirates.  In most situations, competing...
• Posted 12/3 Presentations to Organization and Management of Sport
  There were a few things from the presentations today that kinda stuck out to me.  First, from the presentation on the Fargo - Moorehead Red Hawks, is the way that power and authority is evident from the coach's position.  The...
• Posted Day 3 Presentations to Organization and Management of Sport
       The presentations from day 3 went pretty well.  The ones that really stuck out to me were the Pittsburgh Steelers, The NHL, and the Brainard Lakes Lunkers.  The Steelers presentation was interesting because it was the perspective of a...
• Posted Day 1 Presentations to Organization and Management of Sport
  The one thing that stuck out to me from today's presentations was from the Twins analysis.  I thought it was interesting that the based on the presenters research, he believed that there wasn't really much that the Twins needed to...
• Posted Culture to Organization and Management of Sport
  -Of the definitions of culture given by Slack & Parent, the one I feel that Sathe's fits best.  It says organizational culture is, "the set of important understandings (often unstated) that members of a community share in common".  -The manifestations...
• Posted Organizational Change to Organization and Management of Sport
  Changes in sports organizations typically occur in one of four areas, products and services, technology, structures and systems, and people.  Technology changes occur in the production processes, the skills and methods it uses to deliver its services, or its knowledge...
• Posted Conflict to Organization and Management of Sport
  Of the definitions of conflict presented by Slack & Parent, I like the Morgan version.  It simply states that conflict occurs whenever interests collide.  Building on that, Slack & Parent says that first, the parties involved my perceive conflict to...
• Posted Power and Politics to Organization and Management of Sport
  Organizational power is, according to Slack & Parent, one of the most widespread yet more problematic concepts in the organizational theory literature.  It is not something we can see within a sport organization, but its effects can be clearly felt. ...
• Posted Environment to Organization and Management of Sport
  When thinking about the environment of a sports organization, you have to realize that it's what influences the structure and processes of that organization.  More specifically, there are two types of environments in an organization, first, the General Environment, which...
• Posted Structure & Design to Organization and Management of Sport
  How an organization is structured depends on a few different things, like the size and goals of the organization.  If an organization is smaller and has fewer employees, it would make sense to be less formalized, horizontal and decentralized.  For...
• Posted An Effective Organization? to Organization and Management of Sport
  Determining whether an organization is effective may, on the surface, seem to be a relatively simple problem.  Most people would probably look at whether income > expenses, but there are a few more things to consider.  What if the organization...