Dr. Mar Magnusen, assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Administration, has been named associate editor of the Sport Management Education Journal. The academic journal is published by Human Kinetics and is the official educational journal of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM).
Magnusen has been on the journal’s editorial board since 2013, and in his new role will oversee the newly established “pedagogical innovations” section. The section is designed to solicit a variety of original and creative contributions to aid readers in both a scholarly and an expressly practical manner. Articles will advance new and inventive pedagogical practices or improvements.
“The goal of the section,” Magnusen said, “is to broaden the variety of submissions and to encourage authors to share innovative ideas. We are open to research reviews and synthesis, theoretical reviews, instructional technique reviews, case studies, essays and interviews.”
Magnusen is also inviting prominent scholars to submit for the “Exemplary Contributions” section of the journal. The first invited article was by Dr. Gerald Ferris and Dr. Pamela L. Perrewé, both endowed chairs in the Department of Management at Florida State University.
“They have extensive doctoral-student mentoring experience,” Magnusen said. “For example, Dr. Ferris was honored with the 2010 Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award from the Academy of Management. So I asked them to write a piece on student mentoring.”
Dr. Mark McDonald, associate professor of sport management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Sport Management Educator’s Award from NASSM, will author the second invited paper.
Magnusen came to Baylor in 2011 after completing a PhD at Florida State University. His academic research focuses on the nature of work relationships and applying the social-influence and effectiveness-processes literature to sport management. He has a special interest in recruitment and personnel selection, power, political behavior and the concept of political skill (social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking ability and apparent sincerity).
Sport management is an emerging, multidisciplinary academic discipline. It integrates the sport industry with fields such as business, organizational behavior and psychology to produce research and prepare students for exciting career paths in the global sport marketplace.
“Because managers are the key drivers of organizational performance on and off the field, producing research and training leaders for sport management can have far-reaching impact,” Magnusen said. “These students will enter disciplines such as high school athletics, college athletics, professional sports, community sport, or sport product industries — all of which are in need of the kind of qualified, ethical leaders we train at Baylor School of Education.”
NASSM, the largest professional association in sport management in the world, is actively involved in supporting and assisting professionals working in the fields of sport, leisure and recreation. The purpose of the organization is to promote, stimulate and encourage study, research, scholarly writing and professional development in the theoretical and applied aspects of sport management.
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