Giving Meaning to Sport Involvement in Managerial Work

I use a discursive analytical approach to explore ways in which senior managerial men working in nonprofit organizations understand the contribution, if any, of their own sport history to their work skills, how this may vary by organizational contexts and how the subtexts of these discourses may str...

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Published in:Gender, work, and organization work, and organization, 2011-06, Vol.18 (s1), p.e1-e22
Main Author: Knoppers, Annelies
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Discourse
Discourse analysis
Dominance
Feminism
gender
Interviews
Leadership
Management
managers
Meaning
Men
Non-profit organizations
Skills
sport
Sport management
Sports
Sports (history)
subtext
Team sports
Work
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Summary:I use a discursive analytical approach to explore ways in which senior managerial men working in nonprofit organizations understand the contribution, if any, of their own sport history to their work skills, how this may vary by organizational contexts and how the subtexts of these discourses may strengthen the dominance of managerial men in a specific context. I used semi‐structured interviews to ask 67 senior managerial men about the role they perceive their sport history plays in their managerial skills. Two overlapping topics emerged from the data: team and leadership skills and perseverance and toughness. I explore the meaning these topics had for the managers and the possible gendered subtexts of these meanings. The findings are situated in the critical feminist management and sport literature.
ISSN:0968-6673
1468-0432
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00467.x