Journal articles: 'Rugby leadership'

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Ryan, Irene, and Geoff Dickson. "The invisible norm: An exploration of the intersections of sport, gender and leadership." Leadership 14, no. 3 (November 7, 2016): 329–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742715016674864.

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The gender leadership problem is not the underrepresentation of women, but the dominant presence of groups of men and valued forms of masculinities. We argue that critical leadership studies would benefit by considering sport to explain the nuanced relationships between leadership, sport, men and masculinity and the ensuing invisible norms that marginalise women. In doing so, we respond to calls for critical leadership scholars to examine situated power relations in more reflexive and innovative ways. Sport influences, and is influenced by, the inequalities of gender, class, age and race. The intersection of sport, leadership and gender provides an otherwise unavailable insight into what is normalised, men and the masculine subtext of leadership We examine New Zealand’s relationship with Rugby Union to achieve both of these aims. We conclude that Rugby is anything but benign or irrelevant when it comes to understanding gender and leadership in New Zealand.

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Carvalho, Miguel, Luís Martins, and Sofia Lopes Portela. "Leadership and commitment on Portuguese Rugby National Team." International Journal of Academic Research 5, no. 2 (March 25, 2013): 187–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.7813/2075-4124.2013/5-2/b.28.

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Hodge, Ken, Graham Henry, and Wayne Smith. "A Case Study of Excellence in Elite Sport: Motivational Climate in a World Champion Team." Sport Psychologist 28, no. 1 (March 2014): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2013-0037.

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This case study focused on the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team during the period from 2004 to 2011, when Graham Henry (head coach) and Wayne Smith (assistant coach) coached and managed the team. More specifically, this case study examined the motivational climate created by this coaching group that culminated in winning the Rugby World Cup in 2011. In-depth interviews were completed with Henry and Smith in March 2012. A collaborative thematic content analysis revealed eight themes, regarding motivational issues and the motivational climate for the 2004–2011 All Blacks team: (i) critical turning point, (ii) flexible and evolving, (iii) dual-management model, (iv) “Better People Make Better All Blacks,” (v) responsibility, (vi) leadership, (vii) expectation of excellence, and (viii) team cohesion. These findings are discussed in light of autonomy-supportive coaching, emotionally intelligent coaching, and transformational leadership. Finally, practical recommendations are offered for coaches of elite sports teams.

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Cotterill, Stewart, Richard Cheetham, and Katrien Fransen. "Professional Rugby Coaches’ Perceptions of the Role of the Team Captain." Sport Psychologist 33, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 276–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2018-0094.

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The aim of this study was to explore the lived experiences of the coach in relation to the perceived function of captains in professional rugby union. Participants were 8 elite male rugby coaches purposely sampled for this study. Participants were interviewed individually to gain an understanding of their experiences and perceptions of the role of the captain. The data were thematically analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Ten superordinate themes emerged in the study: types of captain, captain development, challenges, captains role, off-field responsibilities, nature of the job, selection, cultural architects, coach–captain relationship, and key attributes. Results suggest that coaches view the captain as an extension of their authority in the team, leadership groups are increasingly important to support captains, and the criteria for the selection of captains are still vague. As a result, future research should explore the development of specific evidence-based approaches to captain selection and development.

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Mohd Kassim, Ahmad Fikri, and Siti Hasmah Hassan. "Coach Effectiveness and Transformational Leadership in Sport: The Effects of Gender and Athlete Experience." Jurnal Intelek 15, no. 2 (July 28, 2020): 154–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ji.v15i2.331.

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Research has demonstrated the potential importance of transformational leadership and perceived effectiveness of sport coaches for athlete development. Further, coach/athlete gender and athlete sport experience may influence athletes’ perceptions of their coach’s effectiveness. Researchers to date have not investigated the potential impact of coach/athlete gender and athlete sport experience on athletes’ perceptions of their coach’s transformational leadership, or replicated the findings of Kavussanu et. al. (2008). Thus, this research explored the coaching efficacy model and transformational leadership theory as were the guiding frameworks. Male (n = 150) and female (n = 147) athletes from team (football [n = 49], hockey [n = 53], rugby [n = 51]) and individual (badminton [n = 50], swimming [n = 45], gymnastics [n = 49]) sports completed the coaching effectiveness scale and the differentiated transformational leadership inventory. Multiple regression analyses revealed (a) athlete sport experience did not predict athletes’ perceptions of coach effectiveness or transformational leadership, (b) female athletes perceived their coaches to be more effective on all dimensions of coach effectiveness and higher on all dimensions of transformational leadership than male athletes, and (c) coaches were perceived more effective in motivation effectiveness and higher on all dimensions of transformational leadership when they were of the opposite gender to athletes than when gender matched between coach and athlete. In conclusion, coach and athlete gender may have important implications for athletes’ perceptions of transformational leadership and coach effectiveness in team and individual sports.

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Byrne, Gary, and Tania Cassidy. "“Pleased To Be Sacked”: Coach Pat Lam’s ‘Learnings’ and the Evolution of a Professional Rugby Union Organisation." International Sport Coaching Journal 4, no. 3 (September 2017): 326–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2017-0062.

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In 2012 Pat Lam was dismissed (‘sacked’) as head coach of the Auckland Blues, a professional rugby union team in New Zealand. Within months of his sacking Lam had become the head coach of Connacht Rugby; an improving, but midlower table, professional provincial team in the west of Ireland. The purpose of this ‘best practice’ article is twofold. First, to illustrate how Lam used his dismissal (‘sacking’) from the Auckland Blues as a pivotal opportunity to learn, and develop, as a coach. Specifically his imperative that there needed to be clarity and communication of his coaching philosophy, and his quest for alignment between coach and organisation and his ‘belief triad’ (culture, leadership, the game). Second, in an effort to be more than a catalogue of ‘best practice’ strategies, we use the theoretical concept of ‘interruption’ to explain how disruption, disintegration and arresting problematic coaching situations, such as being dismissed as a head coach, can be instrumental in the development of, and learning by, the coach. In outlining Lam’s ‘best practice’ we draw on primary and secondary data sources, which document his stories of redemption and supports Gould’s (2016) case for greater integration of quality coaching stories into sport coaching scholarship.

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Kim, Bong-Jun, Ju-Na Jung, Yeon-Ji Shin, and Kyung-Rok Oh. "The effect of Coach"s Leadership Style perceived by Rugby Athletes on Sports-Confidence and Match Performance." Korean Journal of Sports Science 26, no. 6 (December 31, 2017): 313–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35159/kjss.2017.12.26.6.313.

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Carter, Mary-Ann, Louise N. Signal, Richard Edwards, and Janet Hoek. "Competing teammates: food in New Zealand sports settings." Health Promotion International 34, no. 4 (June 9, 2018): 803–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/day035.

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AbstractDespite the global popularity of sport, we know surprisingly little about food in sports settings. This two-phased study analysed the foods available in New Zealand sports settings. Phase one included a systematic literature review and 18 interviews with key informants from national and regional sporting organizations. Phase two involved 37 key informant interviews with stakeholders from two exemplar sports, rugby and netball and direct observations at netball and rugby venues. This study found most foods and beverages at New Zealand sports events were energy-dense and nutrient-poor. Caterers’ control over food provision, socio-cultural attitudes which view unhealthy foods as normal, and a dominant profit motive, appear to be the key factors influencing the food environment in sports settings. Food environments in sport settings provide frequent opportunities to purchase and consume energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. The research shows we have competing players in the sports context—unhealthy food and healthy physical activity. Achieving sustainable healthy change in sports settings will be challenging when the prevailing attitude normalizes the unhealthy environment. Nutrition policies in sports clubs are urgently needed to increase the availability of healthy food. This requires support from health agencies and leadership from national sports organizations. Given the international nature of the food industry and sport, these findings from New Zealand may assist other countries to better understand the nature of food in sport and adopt appropriate interventions to reduce the obesogenic environment that is sport.

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Melnick, Merrill J., and John W. Loy. "The Effects of Formal Structure on Leadership Recruitment: An Analysis of Team Captaincy Among New Zealand Provincial Rugby Teams." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 31, no. 1 (March 1996): 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/101269029603100105.

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Hapeta, J., F. Palmer, and Y. Kuroda. "Cultural identity, leadership and well-being: how indigenous storytelling contributed to well-being in a New Zealand provincial rugby team." Public Health 176 (November 2019): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.12.010.

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Curitianu, Ioana Maria. "Competitive relations and communication in team sports." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 7, no. 2 (April 18, 2015): 1276–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v7i2.3561.

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The sporting environment is a rich, unique, and salient context in which to study the basic and applied nature of a variety of social dynamics. Issues such as leadership, collective efficacy, team cohesion, and group goal setting undoubtedly have great theoretical and practical value within sport teams. Sport is completely permeated by the question of the diversity which it vividly enacts. The same way sports blends sporting spirit, competition drive and fair play it should also blend culturally different envisaged notions of non-uniformity, diversity, enrichment through other culture, other skin color, other language and other style of living. All disciplines are concerned to a more or less intense degree, depending on their popular support or lack of it and on the culture which they convey. Multiple origins and complex careers are now a hallmark: handball, rugby, basketball as well as individual sports like athletics, judo and tennis have their champions stemming from diversity, who form the tip of an equally variegated iceberg of school and amateur sport (Diamond P., Hausman J., 1994).

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Rodrigue, François, Pierre Trudel, and Jennifer Boyd. "Learning From Practice: The Value of a Personal Learning Coach for High-Performance Coaches." International Sport Coaching Journal 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 285–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2018-0078.

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Multiple actors and roles are now recognized and promoted to support the development of coaches. Personal coaching is an emerging industry in many professional fields yet remains insignificant in sport coaching. The purpose of this study was to document and assess the value of a 12-month collaborative action research in which a high-performance rugby coach, with the support of a personal learning coach, aimed to learn from her coaching practice. This research was operationalized using an appreciative inquiry framework. Personal coaching was conducted according to the principles of narrative-collaborative coaching. Data collection included interviews, video observation, audio recordings of coaching conversations, notes from phone calls, and email exchanges. Results showed that this partnership created a safe and challenging learning space where different coaching topics were addressed, such as reflective practice, leadership, and mental preparation. A deductive analysis of the debriefing interview was completed using the value creation framework developed by Wenger and colleagues. This analysis indicated that the high-performance coach’s relationship with the personal learning coach enabled the development of five types of value: immediate, potential, applied, realised, and transformative. Therefore, it is suggested that narrative-collaborative coaching can complement existing formal and non-formal learning activities.

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Rusu, Oana. "Assessment of the Prevailing Motivation within the Sports Teams from the City of Iasi." Timisoara Physical Education and Rehabilitation Journal 5, no. 10 (June 1, 2013): 14–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/tperj-2013-0002.

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Abstract Seen as a psycho-social products, motivation, attitudes and the view of life depends on the education, socio-cultural environment etc. The individual’s personality marks his activities, motivations and interests, as it ensures the direction and dynamics of the participation to it. Within the group, the individual seeks to satisfy personal needs, in agreement with the achievement of the organizational goals. The level of motivation of the individual is determined by the action of several factors, and the contribution of each member of the group's performance is different. We aim to assess the level of motivation of the members of sports groups. The research sample was composed of athletes (N=158, 55 females, 103 males) from the sports groups within the city of Iasi, part of the first and second sports divisions (basketball, football, handball, rugby, and volleyball). The respondents answered to a adapted to the Romanian population 32-item questionnaire; the items were grouped into four factors: leadership (power needs), expertise / performance (achievement needs), bonding (affiliation needs, subsistence (existence needs). The homogeneity instrument was assessed for the entire scale, as well as independently for each factor. The lack of variance homogeneity made it impossible to get outcomes for the interaction of the independent variables such as the type of club and the status. No gender-based differences were found regarding the power needs. If the type of club does not influence the expert/performance factor, have identified a partial influences of this variable over the bonding factor. Professional athletes are more motivated to achieve the performance than semi professional athletes.

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Rich, B. Ruby. "Toronto 2019: From Budapest to the Zeitgeist." Film Quarterly 73, no. 2 (2019): 93–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2019.73.2.93.

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FQ Editor B. Ruby Rich reviews the offerings at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, the first under the new leadership of Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente. Avoiding Hollywood's tentpole films and Oscar buzz, Rich instead hunts down films presenting subtle studies of human behavior, in most cases with the help of subtitles. From the latest efforts from established art-house favorites Pedro Almodovar, Oliver Assayas, and Elia Suleiman, to discoveries such as the Romanian documentary Colectiv (Alexander Nanau, 2019) and the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz's A Vida Invisível (The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, 2019), Rich finds ample reassurance of film's emotive power and ability to provide a moral compass in challenging times.

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du Plooy, Kobus, Pieter Kruger, and Jan Visagie. "Leadership challenges experienced by elite South African rugby coaches." SA Journal of Industrial Psychology 46 (December 18, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajip.v46i0.1811.

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Sheasgreen, Clare. "Perceptions of Masculinity among Male Varsity Rugby Players at Queen’s." Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, February 20, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/iqurcp.9564.

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Existing literature on the topic of sport and masculinity has suggested that male varsity athletes model more hegemonic masculine norms (Messner, 2002). In fact, athletic participation has been found to be a predictor of misogynistic and homophobic attitudes (Steinfeldt et al., 2011). It has been argued that these attitudes are further enforced by the fact that the social power possessed by male athletes receives institutional support, which can in turn influence the social and sexual cultures on university campuses (Sanday, 2007). Contact team sports have a reputation for reinforcing hegemonic masculinity more than other sports do (Messner, 2002). Rugby is a particularly aggressive and male-dominated sport (Maxwell & Visek, 2009), however the majority of studies on varsity athletics and masculinity use data from American colleges and focus on contact sports that are historically more prominent in North America such as football and hockey (Steinfeldt et al., 2011; Messner, 2002; Boeringer, 1996). I hope to add to the existing body of research by focusing exclusively on rugby at a Canadian University. To do so, I will conduct interviews with 5 men who are current players on the Queen’s varsity rugby team. I will perform a content analysis on the transcripts of the interviews to assess how male varsity rugby players at Queen’s University understand and express masculinity. I intend to distribute my findings to Queen’s athletic administrators and rugby coaching staff. The findings may contribute to leadership training that addresses gender issues in athletics at Queen’s.

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Manley, Andrew, and Shaun Williams. "‘We’re not run on Numbers, We’re People, We’re Emotional People’: Exploring the experiences and lived consequences of emerging technologies, organizational surveillance and control among elite professionals." Organization, December 6, 2019, 135050841989007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419890078.

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The deployment of digital technologies and data analytics within contemporary organizations are continually seeking to capture vast reams of information to shape employee performance and guide behaviour. However, there is a need to further advance our understanding of the effects and unintended consequences of these technologies within differing organizational contexts. Drawing on the experiences of members connected to a UK-based professional Rugby Union club, we focus on the impact of emerging technologies and ubiquitous surveillance practices in governing employee behaviour, shifting workplace boundaries and providing the ability to resist a mode of organizational control governed by data analytics. Specific emphasis is placed upon exposing the lived consequences and tensions that emerge among employees subjected to an intensive mode of organizational surveillance. In doing so, this study highlights the manner in which emerging technologies and surveillance practices may contribute towards feelings of anxiety, precariousness and performance fatigue among their employees. Through this analysis, we aim to provide a critical understanding of managerial and leadership techniques of control, surveillance and knowledge production that may prove relevant for future research in wider organizational settings shaped by technological transformations and new forms of data-driven management.

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"Leung Receives 2019 Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award." Eos 101 (April 2, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020eo140780.

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L. Ruby Leung has been selected as the 2019 Bert Bolin awardee and lecturer of the AGU Global Environmental Change section. She received the award and presented this lecture at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes an Earth scientist for “groundbreaking research and/or leadership in global environmental change through cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research in the past 10 years.”

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