T.J.

Hammonds

Using Mullins Library to Find Articles

Part A:
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Part B:

Name of UA Class: (COMM 1023- Communication in a diverse world)

Instructor: Dr. Kasey L. Walker
Search Topic: Privilege and Diversity

Part C: Step 1
1. Megan Diane Langenfeld
2. Coaching Style Preferences of Division I College and Professional Softball Players
3. 2014
4. University of Arkansas
5. The purpose of this study was to describe the coaching style and leader behavior
preferences of softball players.
6. Female athletes prefer a higher degree of Democratic Behavior, Social Support, Positive
Feedback, and Training and Instruction but a lower degree of Autocratic Behavior
7. This article would be important to sport management because it studies in what ways
athletes, specifically softball player in this case, respond best to coaching techniques. One
goal of a coach is to management your players appropriately, and this thesis looks at what
techniques work best.
8. The main thing I would change about this study is also factor in other sports. Because this
study focused only around softball players, we are only able to gage what works best for
them, but what softball players prefer might be different from what other athletes prefer.
It is also important that male athletes are accounted for. Men and women might respond
differently to different styles of coaching and leadership behaviors, but this specific
article would not help distinguish those differences. The final thing I would change is
making sure the same amount of college level and professional athletes were surveyed.
There was a much higher number of college athletes participating in this study that
professional, so the results might have been skewed in a different way.
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Part C: Step 2
1. Dr. Kasey Walker
2. COMM 1023- Communication in a diverse world
3. 2003
4. Communication and power in collaborative organizing
5. Purdue University
6. “With regard to how collaboration occurs, my primary conclusions are: (a) collaboration
is emergent, highly interdependent, and embedded within multiple contexts; (b)
collaborative participants must constantly (re)negotiate the collaborative goals and
processes; and (c) collaborative networks are fluid, moderately dense, decentralized and
emergent as the result of specific endogenous and exogenous effects.”