Paul Cummins, Ian O'Boyle, Tony Cassidy

Leadership in Sports Coaching (eBook, ePUB)

A Social Identity Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on leadership in sports coaching, exploring key concepts and principles underpinned by a presentation of new empirical research. Placing social identity theory at its centre, this book provides students and researchers with a powerful tool for understanding the complex social dynamic that is the coaching process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351971751
• Artikelnr.: 48792860

Autorenporträt

Paul Cummins is managing director of SeaChange Ltd., an organisational development company that focuses on leadership, culture and lean management. Paul has also lectured in performance psychology at the University of Ulster, UK. His research interests include various aspects of leadership in sport, athlete transitions, culture change and social identity, particularly as they apply within the sports coaching context. Within the applied sports setting, Paul is a qualified sport psychologist who has worked with Olympic-level athletes and top coaches seeking to increase their leadership and overall coaching performance.

Ian O'Boyle is a senior lecturer in sport and recreation management in the School of Management at the University of South Australia. His research interests relate to the broad topic of leadership and governance in sport and other associated disciplines within the field of sport management. He has previously been affiliated with University of Ulster in the UK and Massey University in New Zealand. He has published widely within sport studies including in leading sport coaching journals.

Tony Cassidy is professor of child and family health psychology at Ulster University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Coaching Effectiveness and Leadership: A Theoretical
Perspective 3. A Social Identity Theory of Leadership 4. Developing a
Social Identity Measure for Leadership in Sport Coaching 5. The Effects of
Social Identity on Coaching Competence, Sport Motivation and Sport
Confidence 6. Analysis of Social Identity on Coach Evaluations, Sport
Motivation and Sport Confidence Across a Large Athlete Sample 7.
Synthesizing the Theoretical Outcomes of Investigating Social Identity 8.
Research and Practical Implications Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3