Paper Title
Maximizing Employee Productivity: Constructing A Business Model From Competitive Sport

Abstract
Competitive sport serves as an effective model from which its approach to motivating team members can be applied to organizations across all domains. Team success in sport requires skilled individuals, in the form of players, who consistently excel to their maximum abilities. The need to maximize team member’s individual talents in a way that sets the groundwork for cohesive team oriented performances is intensified by their opponents, who attempt to undermine those maximum efforts as part of their own strategic process to maximize their own player’s talents. Regardless of winners and losers, overall team improvement is a common outcome of the natural competitive attempts by both teams to undermine the other’s attempts to improve productivity.When the competitive forces inherent to sport are combined with a managerial understanding and application of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943) and Berryman, Fink and Fink’s (1996) Needs that Motivate, individual player and team productivity is further increased toward maximization. These productivity oriented approaches to motivation in sport, which are essential to team success, can be effectively transitioned to non-sport organizations regardless of domain. It is necessary that managers are experts in their organization’s domain if individual employee hierarchical needs are to be accurately met and aligned with the respective organization’s mission (Kim, 2012). Equally important is managerial awareness of competing organization’s strengths and strategies so as to effectively counter and thus, clear the path for their own maximization of employee and organizational productivity. Keywords: Sport, Administration, Athletics, Management