This excellent text provides the reader with a clear and thorough understanding of direct, hands-on leadership by effectively integrating theory with practice. Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Service Organizations assists individuals in understanding the importance of leadership in this field. Topics covered include contemporary theoretical and practical information, organized in a format that allows for the comprehension of the elements necessary for effective leadership in recreation and leisure service organizations.
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This text presents fresh insights on leadership from the most prominent voices in the field today.
This third edition is unique. In the first edition, entitled Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Service Organisations, the authors organised the effort into separate theoretical and practical applications sections that...
This book probes at the importance leadership plays in the leisure and recreation service industry. Special efforts are taken to examine special interest groups such as youth groups, senior citizens,...
Programming for Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Services: A Servant Leadership Approach
It has been over twenty years since the first edition of 'Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations' was conceptualised, written, and published. Now in its second edition, 'Managing Recreation, Park,...
This text presents leadership as a personal journey that takes conscious effort to undertake and develop. Leadership is one of the keystones of successful parks, recreation, and leisure services agencies, organizations, and programs.
The third form is the rolling biennial budget. With this format, two annual budgets are created simultaneously but are adopted each year rather than as one budget covering two years (Jackson 2002) ...
Often requested and fully updated, the 4th edition of Leadership in Leisure Services: Making a Difference by Deb Jordan and Ronald Ramsing, includes fully updated chapters with contemporary practices for leadership in the broad field of ...
" "The book introduces group dynamics theory and current research as it applies to recreation and leisure settings and moves beyond the theory to show students that their understanding of group dynamics can be a meaningful and realistic ...