The boundaries of sports journalism continue to expand as non-traditional actors emerge and proliferate in the digital environment. This outstanding and vital specialist area within the news industry ...faces increasing pressure from adjacent fields. Amateur sports enthusiasts (bloggers, streamers or influencers) and team media for sports organizations adopt many of the roles and tasks historically attributed to sports journalism and engage in activities that may be perceived and regarded as journalistic by audiences. The arrival of new actors around the journalistic field, the heavy use of social media and its impact on sports consumption patterns, the search for new business models for news organizations, and the disrupting technology that is being explored and applied in sports coverage all require new conceptual approaches to better understand the sports news industry in the digital age. All of these considerations led eighteen authors from nine countries (Greece, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Australia, Ireland, and Sweden) to publish their research contributions and broaden the discussion in this MDPI reprint about the current trends in the sports media landscape and the most pressing challenges that sports journalists need to face in the years to come.
Purpose: This paper examines the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance, with mediating role of leadership style.
Theoretical framework: This study ...integrates theoretical perspectives on HRM practices Namely (the recruitment selection process, incentive system, and training & development), Leadership style and organisational performance. The conceptual model for this study was developed based on previous research in the field of HRM practices and leadership styles globally. The conceptual model has HRM practices as an independent variable (IV), Leadership style as a mediator and organisational performance as a dependent variable (DV).
Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey questionnaire instrument was employed to collect data from 156 employees working at sport organisations in Oman. SPSS was used for analysing the data, and Smart-PLS were used to test the proposed hypotheses.
Findings: The result revealed that human resource practices are significantly related to organisational performance. Also, leadership styles mediated the influence of HRM practises on organisational performance.
Research, practical & social implications: The finding of this study provides valuable insights into sport organisations in Oman can enhance their HRM practices to improve organisational performance and achieve their goals. Moreover, it has been recommended that organizations use a leadership style that enhances organizational performance. The results come from a cross-sectional study which was done at the convenience of the researcher. The results may not be generalized across the country. The application of the results to other organisations must be done with maximum care.
Originality/Value: This study adds to the literature on the effectiveness of HRM practices, Leadership style in enhancing organisational performance in a specific context namely the sport organisations in Oman. The study also highlights the mediating role of leadership style in the relationship between HRM practices and organisational performance.
Most people will agree that skiing down the Streif—one of the world’s most dangerous alpine downhill ski slopes—at nearly 90 miles per hour is quite a risky business ...
Sport organizations employ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to stimulate support for their products orservices to capitalize on strategic approaches to enhance their business and ...social outcomes. Research question: Although themajority of previous studies in sport management have focused on the factors that lead professional sport organizations (PSOs) toengage in CSR activities and outcomes, little is known about the authenticity of the initiatives. Research Method: Building onstakeholder theory, this study puts forward a conceptual framework that considers perceived authentic CSR as a dynamic process thatrelies on effective communication between the sport organization and target stakeholders. As such, the framework specifies fourfundamental components - anticipating, planning, implementing, and evaluation - that jointly influence perceived authentic CSR in thePSOs context. Results and Findings: Thus, the proposed framework updates and extends the meaning of authentic CSR in the sportcontext, which, in turn, can influence social outcomes.
This text describes the recently published guide Sport, Inclusion and LGTBI Diversityelaborated by the research group Physical Activity, Education and Society (AFES acronyms in Spanish) of the ...University of Valencia. The guide published in 2023 by the Conselleria de Educación, Cultura Deporte of the Generalitat Valenciana(Autonomous Government) is a further step towards a more open and respectful sport with diversity. This guide offers a wide range of data, ideas, proposals, examples and tools to support professionals and sports organizations to change their policies and attitudes. This guide complements others (mostly international) that are available for those interested in including diversity in sport.
A través de este texto se hace una descripción de la recientemente publicada guía Deporte, Inclusión y Diversidad LGTBI elaborada por el Grupo de investigación Actividad Física, Educación y Sociedad (AFES) de la Universidad de Valencia. La guía, publicada en 2023 por la Conselleria de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de la Generalitat Valenciana, supone un paso más en el camino hacia un deporte más abierto y respetuoso con la diversidad. Esta guía ofrece una amplia gama de datos, ideas, propuestas, ejemplos y herramientas para que los equipos técnicos y las organizaciones deportivas puedan apostar con más facilidad por un cambio en sus políticas y en sus actitudes. Esta guía complementa a otras (la mayoría internacionales) que están disponibles para quienes estén interesados en incluir la diversidad en el deporte.
Information, communication, and digital technologies such as the Internet, social media channels, mobile communication devices, big data, and artificial intelligence technologies generate new ...challenges for public communication within organizations that have the public as users of services. Private organizations in Romania have already implemented information, communication, and digital technologies. Moreover, in the sector of public organizations in sports (municipal and county sports clubs), significant steps are being taken towards modernizing public communication based on information, communication, and digital technologies. The paper proposes an empirical study on the employees of municipal and county sports clubs concerning the impact of information, communication, and digital technologies on the public communication of these clubs. The collected data is processed using artificial neural network analysis. Following the interpretation of the data, we show that social media represent the most critical technologies that influence the public communication of municipal and county sports clubs.
The present study aims at highlighting some of the defining aspects of how sport, in this case the volleyball represented by the Federation International Volleyball (FIVB) plays a decisive role in ...shaping and substantiating the concepts of globalization and regionalization. In this respect, two essential aspects were analyzed, one on the institutional organization of volleyball as a sport and the other on global competitions.
The study aims at Constructa measure of organizational Trust in sports organizations in Nineveh and Identify the dimensions level of organizational Trust for the heads in sports organizations. By ...members Administrative staffs . Descriptive approach, through survey method. The study sample was consisted of two parts, the first of which consist of the construction sample (106) of the members while the second part consist of the applied sample (112) of the members. In order to achieve the study aims, organizational trust measure constructed by the researcher is used consisting of (29) items distributed among fife dimensions. Data are statistically treated using theatrical scope,. In addition, T test for two independent sampl T test for one sample, Pearson correlation coefficient, Gentman equation, alpha coefficient, mean, also used as statistical means
The study sums up - Build a measure of organizational trust for sports in Nineveh - The heads Sports organization ( federation-sport teams) have high organizational trust by members with worker according to fife dimensions (Objectives Delegation, Centralization Decentralization in decision- making Leading, and Controlling .
Introduction. The work considers regional features of the establishing public organizations in the Komi region in the 1920–1930s.
Materials and Methods. The research methodology is based on a complex ...approach using systematic, structural, historical, formal, legal and other methods. The main materials were both published and unpublished documents.
Results and Discussion. During the estimated period, public life both in the center of the country and in the peripheries was very active. Immediately after the Civil War, in the Komi region, the establishment of public organizations solved the problems of education, enlightenment and upbringing of citizens of a new country. The experience of organizations that had existed before 1917 was employed. They had successfully established themselves for a long time and could contribute to building socialism and strengthening the power of the ruling Communist party. New public organizations were created in those areas where the authorities needed to expand their influence and strengthen their positions. The branches of public organizations were actively created in the peasant milieu.
Conclusion. The regional features of the formation of public organizations include the fact that public organizations involved not only the intelligentsia of the region, but also the peasantry. Also, it was a significant coverage of the members. Each region of the Komi region had several branches of various public organizations. The unique feature of their activities were determined by the national basis in the case of Komi.
In relation to conceptualizing sports, beliefs about sex binary and male hegemony are dominant. To match these assumptions and provide level playing fields, sport systems are based on ...sex-segregation. Thus, people who do not fit into or reject fitting into sex categories are hindered from participating in sports, particularly organized sports. Studies on social exclusion of gender-identity minorities in sports mainly adopt a qualitative approach and focus on Anglophone countries. This research is the first to provide a comprehensive picture of the experiences of LGBT+ athletes in organized sports settings in Europe and is based on a quantitative online survey (
= 2,282). The current paper draws special attention to differences between cisgender and non-cisgender athletes (including transgender men, transgender women, non-binary, and non-identifying individuals). Besides athletes' experiences, organizational strategies of inclusion, derived from qualitative interviews with stakeholders from sport systems in five European countries (Germany, Scotland, Austria, Italy, and Hungary) are examined. Theoretically anchored in Cunningham's (2012) multilevel model for understanding the experiences of LGBT+ individuals and Meyer's (2003) minority stress model, the paper aims to (1) analyze the assessment of transnegativity and (2) examine negative experiences (prevalence, forms, perpetrators) of LGBT+ athletes from organized sport contexts in Europe; and (3) discuss inclusive strategies in sports organizations in Europe. Data reveal that transnegativity is perceived as a major problem in European sports, and non-cisgender athletes are the most vulnerable group, suffering particularly from structural discrimination. The implementation of inclusive strategies for non-cisgender athletes is perceived as a complex and essential task, but the sports organizations in the five countries differ substantially in terms of the status of implementation.
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