Regular Assignment 1 by Ravi Gupta
Regular Assignment 1- Ravi Gupta
Please read the attached case. Write a report identifying the problems in this situation and make recommendations as to how to address these problems. The report should be about 2 pages (500-600 words).
The case on “Marathon Runners at different levels” is a case study which is based on Path-Goal theory which gives several positive features. The case starts with introducing a new elected president David Abruzzo for the Metro city striders track club (MSTC). One of his duties is to serve as the coach for runners who hope to complete the New York City Marathon. He himself has won several marathons and ultra-marathons runner race. Thus he is more acquainted about the roles and responsibilities of coach for the marathon runners.
After the introduction of David, case study drives us through understandings of how the complete training period of 16 weeks is carried out by athletes and runners. Initial 8 weeks he found it easy to train the runners. He was pleased looking the progress of the runners and had little difficulty in his role as coach. Some questions started to come in his mind regarding how to help his runners to achieve their goal. His issues of concern seemed quite different from those that he had expected to hear from other runners he previously trained for Marathons. Thus he divided runners and their concerns into following three different groups.
The first group comprised of all basic questions with newly joined runners who never had previous experiences. They kept on asking basic questions such as what to eat a day before marathon race, how much to drink and what kind of shoes to wear. The second group comprised of runners who had previously ran for marathons but were concerned about the effects of David’s training on their running, wanted to know the running mileage related to their possible marathon finish time. In addition their concern was to know whether consuming carbo-loading would improve their performances
Please read the attached case. Write a report identifying the problems in this situation and make recommendations as to how to address these problems. The report should be about 2 pages (500-600 words).
The case on “Marathon Runners at different levels” is a case study which is based on Path-Goal theory which gives several positive features. The case starts with introducing a new elected president David Abruzzo for the Metro city striders track club (MSTC). One of his duties is to serve as the coach for runners who hope to complete the New York City Marathon. He himself has won several marathons and ultra-marathons runner race. Thus he is more acquainted about the roles and responsibilities of coach for the marathon runners.
After the introduction of David, case study drives us through understandings of how the complete training period of 16 weeks is carried out by athletes and runners. Initial 8 weeks he found it easy to train the runners. He was pleased looking the progress of the runners and had little difficulty in his role as coach. Some questions started to come in his mind regarding how to help his runners to achieve their goal. His issues of concern seemed quite different from those that he had expected to hear from other runners he previously trained for Marathons. Thus he divided runners and their concerns into following three different groups.
The first group comprised of all basic questions with newly joined runners who never had previous experiences. They kept on asking basic questions such as what to eat a day before marathon race, how much to drink and what kind of shoes to wear. The second group comprised of runners who had previously ran for marathons but were concerned about the effects of David’s training on their running, wanted to know the running mileage related to their possible marathon finish time. In addition their concern was to know whether consuming carbo-loading would improve their performances