Myth: People Fully Recover From COVID-19

Con el transcurrir del tiempo se ha dejado entrever la posibilidad de que el pensamiento administrativo se ha alimentado sólo de la práctica del ejercicio de administrar en las organizaciones, cuya base se fundamenta en el hecho de una visión objetiva de la realidad que procura dar cuenta del comportamiento de los diferentes colaboradores en las mismas. Este artículo de reflexión pretende ofrecer al lector una mirada que va más allá de la mera observación de una realidad organizacional desde el punto de vista de las prácticas e invita a involucrarse en el tema del poder como un referente para encontrar explicación a la conducta de los colaboradores en las empresas y permite comparar lo que desde la administración se ha conocido como el ejercicio del poder en las organizaciones. El artículo, además de corresponder a una revisión teórica de los planteamientos realizados por diferentes autores reconocidos en este campo, propone, a partir de él, sugerir un tema de discusión entre lo que se entiende por poder y cómo la administración ha interpretado dicho concepto desde la óptica de su ejercicio en las organizaciones.(resumo en espanhol) Con el transcurrir del tiempo se ha dejado entrever la posibilidad de que el pensamiento administrativo se ha alimentado sólo de la práctica del ejercicio de administrar en las organizaciones, cuya base se fundamenta en el hecho de una visión objetiva de la realidad que procura dar cuenta del comportamiento de los diferentes colaboradores en las mismas. Este artículo de reflexión pretende ofrecer al lector una mirada que va más allá de la mera observación de una realidad organizacional desde el punto de vista de las prácticas e invita a involucrarse en el tema del poder como un referente para encontrar explicación a la conducta de los colaboradores en las empresas y permite comparar lo que desde la administración se ha conocido como el ejercicio del poder en las organizaciones. El artículo, además de corresponder a una revisión teórica de los planteamientos realizados por diferentes autores reconocidos en este campo, propone, a partir de él, sugerir un tema de discusión entre lo que se entiende por poder y cómo la administración ha interpretado dicho concepto desde la óptica de su ejercicio en las organizaciones.Across the time, it seems that most of the attention in management thinking has been in how to administrate the organizations, in which an objective view of the reality is needed in order to understand the behavior of the company collaborators. This article pretends to offer a new point of view in which not only the realities of the management in organizations are taken into account but the power is seen as a key factor that explains the behavior of these collaborators, what leads the introduction of the commonly known concepts of the exercise of the power in the organizations. This document makes a theoretical review of the expositions realized by different recognized authors in this field, at the same time that proposes the power and its interpretation from the exercise of the power in the organization as a subject of discussion and further study

Do Lower Extremity Injuries of NFL Players Affect their Yearly Income?

Introduction: Injuries are arguably the most daunting career setbacks professional sports players have to face. To better understand the drawbacks of sports injuries, we decided to examine players’ annual income before and after sports injuries. Income is arguably the most important metric of success for professional athletes. To make the study more relevant for the US, we collected data on one of the most viewed professional sports leagues in the country: the National Football League (NFL). Methods: We examined the NFL’s weekly injury reports for seasons from 2016 to 2020, and recorded players with lower extremity injuries (LEI) (Hamstring, Calves, Groin, or Quadricep). We accessed pro-football-reference.com and spotrac.com to record player identifiers and individual annual salaries 3 years prior to the index injury and up to 7 years after if data was available respectively. A google spreadsheet was used to record all information noted above. Results: Data is available, pending analysis. Discussion: This project will allow us to better understand the impact injuries have on the lives of hundreds of professional sports players and how it can alter the course of their careers. This project sheds light on the importance of this topic. We plan to build off of this in future research by examining variables that affect recovery time and the recurrence of injury throughout athletes’ careers

Is old really gold? Examining the effect of playing experience in preventing professional athletes’ injuries

Introduction: The literature contains research showing that age increases the risk of injury in individuals who live sedentary lives. Looking at injury rates in individuals who are active for a living can better inform the importance of exercise training regimens in an aging population Methods: Combing player injury data from thet NFL and player statistics from pro-football-reference.com, we will create a dataset containing variables like seasons played in the NFL and age of player at time of injury. We will include all uninjured players in our dataset for comparison. We will use ANOVA to figure out how much these variables accounted for the incidence of injury in athletes. Results: Data is in the process of being collected. We expect that data analysis will likely indicate that player position (Quarter back, Linebacker, etc.) was the variable recorded that explained the most variance in injury. Age of player might be weakly positively correlated and seasons played in the NFL will probably have no correlation. Discussion: Seasons played probably does not correlate to injury risk since many NFL players have played football for multiple years prior to the NFL: future NFL players may start their football careers in middle school or highschool and spend differing amounts of time in college football, it is unfeasible to use this variable to extrapolate the actual amount of football experience players have. While older players are likely more injury prone than younger players, this factor is minimal compared to the likely effect of player position. Probably, active older adults should be encouraged to pursue physical activity that has been shown to have less risk of injury

Do Lower Extremity Injuries of NFL Players Affect their Contracts?

Introduction: There is likely a correlation between National Football League (NFL) players who endure lower extremity injuries (LEI) and the length and remuneration of subsequent contracts. This kind of data can be useful in training a model to predict how an injury may influence a player’s contracts in the future. Methods: We examined the NFL’s weekly injury reports for seasons from 2016 to 2020, and recorded players with lower extremity injuries (LEI) (Hamstring, Calves, Groin, or Quadricep). We accessed pro-football-reference.com and spotrac.com to record player identifiers and individual annual salaries 3 years prior to the index injury and up to 7 years after if data was available respectively. A google spreadsheet was used to record all information noted above.We will use machine learning to create a model of these variables. Results: Our analysis likely indicates that LEI has a strong negative correlation with reduction in length of a player’s subsequent contract and reduction in annual salary. Our working hypothesis is that mean contract length will be reduced by six months and mean annual salary will be reduced by $50,000. Discussion: This project will allow our team to further explore the implications of injuries on the careers of athletes and what other barriers these injuries create for players participating in these sports. This project can act as a stepping stone to help elucidate how a variety of lower extremity orthopedic injuries may impact professional athletes’ career measured by their earning potential