Compulsory modules

Leadership Models and Practices: Application to a Sport Context (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to deliver a thorough grounding in the main leadership models, and the issues that impact on leadership practice in the sport environment. It is intended as an introduction to leadership and will be the theoretical foundation upon which other sport leadership units are built.

Leadership, Diversity and Change in the Sport Industry (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • Introduce students to recent developments in leadership research with focus on diversity and change in sport business
  • Become familiar with a range of leadership challenges executives face when managing culturally diverse, or remote teams to better understand the adoption of leadership styles in different parts of the sport business industry
  • Examine the challenges increasingly high innovation pressures bring for sport business professionals and how seemingly competing management strategies can be balanced to satisfy various stakeholders

Grand Challenges (15 credits)

The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.

Optional modules

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Strategic Sports Sponsorship (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • Introduce students to key concepts in sport sponsorship
  • Develop an understanding of the nature of sport sponsorship.

Sport, Politics, and Diplomacy (15 credits)

The aim of this module is to understand the role that sport plays in political and diplomatic issues at a national and international level. Using contemporary examples from developed, transitioning, developing, and fuel-based economies, the module will explore how sport can be used to positive (e.g., facilitating socio-economic plans) or negative (e.g., whitewashing human rights violations) ends. In doing so, the module aims to promote a critical, evidence-based understanding of the interplay between sport, politics, and diplomacy.

International HRM (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to:

  • examine HRM strategies and practices in institutional and cultural contexts
  • examine the role of HRM strategies in the management of multinational firms.
  • understand how institutional and cultural differences affect multinational companies decision
  • identify emerging issues in international HRM and various challenges that multinational companies face in managing people and workplaces globally