Kinesiology 2298A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rowing Canada
16 Oct 2016
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An intern"s perspective into the high performance pillar of rowing canada. Performance directors allowed high level of authority. Highly formalized and bureaucratic within inter-organizational partnerships. Support all national teams and development programs. Lead social media for central/east canada and non-olympic world. Evening corporate fundraising event after olympic team announcement. Sold canadian flags with signatures on it. Olympics full live coverage by cbc and world rowing. Critical review of sport system every 4 years. System = seeing, understanding, and working with the whole. Attributes of the parts and their relationship to whole (cid:498)a set of interconnected parts and interdependent parts arranged in a manner that produces a unified whole(cid:499) Example the human body (cid:498)this interdependence of the elements is therefore a defining characteristic of a system(cid:499) (morecroft, sanchez, & heene, 2002) Open has influences directed from environment, can change, organizations. Closed impervious to the environment, there is not a direct influence from. Proximal (task) environment directly attached to the system.
