Product Description: This book presents new perspectives on the importance of leadership in the profession. Integrating theory with practice, the book provides foundational perspectives in the study of leadership at all levels -- direct service, supervisory, managerial and community/civic -- in recreation, parks and leisure service settings...read more

Organized in three major sections the text provides a comprehensive overview of the phenomena of leisure in North American society, the delivery of leisure services and critical and relevant issues impacting professional practice. The authors demonstrate that the role of leisure professionals is one of crafting leisure environments to assist individuals, groups of people and whole communities in achieving a higher quality of life and a greater level of happiness and satisfaction.

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Product Description: This comprehensive text addresses all three levels of leisure programming: direct service delivery, program planning, and program management. It focuses on issues related to customer service and benefits, such as providing leisure experiences, assessing customer needs, evaluating program impact, promoting positive customer and leader interactions, analyzing and implementing policies, and supervising staff...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It has been over twenty years since the first edition of Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations was conceptualized, written, and published. Now in its second edition, Managing Recreation, Park, and Leisure Services considers three critical changes in the leisure service field: technology and information resolution; nature of the workforce; and the basic revision of our economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This comprehensive text addresses all three levels of leisure programming: direct service delivery, program planning, and program management. It focuses on issues related to customer service and benefits-such as providing leisure experiences, assessing customer needs, evaluating program impact, promoting positive customer and leader interactions, analyzing and implementing policies, and supervising staff.

Product Description: As a companion to Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Service Organizations this book examines special interest groups such as youth groups, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. Leadership in specialized leisure activities are also thoroughly discussed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Edginton, Christopher R., Hudson, Susan D., Ford, Phyllis M.

Product Description: This text provides a foundation for the study of leisure and of those organizations that deliver leisure services. Intended for both graduate and postgraduate students of leisure studies and recreation management, it aims to offer an analysis of the societal factors influencing leisure, and to helping students understand how leisure services are organized and delivered by government, non-profit and commercial agencies...read more

Product Description: Book by Edginton, Christopher R.