The Psychology of High-Performance Sports Organizations

Who it's for · from the introduction

Sport psychologists, performance directors, head coaches, welfare leads, front-office executives, board members, and anyone responsible for the organizational environment inside which athletic performance occurs. It is also written for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in sport psychology, sport management, kinesiology, and related fields—those who will inherit these systems and need to understand their architecture before they are inside them. The learning objectives, discussion questions, and case studies in each chapter are designed to support both classroom use and independent professional development. The principles cross levels—professional, collegiate, and developmental—though the primary context is professional team sport, with adaptation notes throughout. The architecture covers everyone: the locker room, the front office, the boardroom, and the classroom. The principles do not change based on job title or career stage. The applications do.