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The Complexity of Leading in Sport: Examining the Role of Domain Expertise in Assessing Leader Credibility and Prototypicality.

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Swanson, Steve and Kent, A. (2014) The Complexity of Leading in Sport: Examining the Role of Domain Expertise in Assessing Leader Credibility and Prototypicality. Journal of Sport Management, 28 (1). pp. 81-93. ISSN Print: 0888-4773 Online: 1543-270X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2012-0253

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The way in which leaders in sport organizations are evaluated by their employees is dependent upon perceived levels of credibility and implicit theories of leadership. Leader knowledge and expertise play significant roles in this process, yet both have been treated as comprehensive constructs irrespective of specific knowledge domains. Drawing from the education literature, this research looks to disentangle the global perspective used by the credibility and prototypicality literatures. It is proposed that employees in sport organizations expect managers to possess domain-specific expertise which is separate from the functional area requirement. Two different samples including professional sport employees and sport management students were used, with confirmatory factor and conjoint analyses used to test the research hypotheses. The results support the notion that distinct psychological processes exist within sport organizations, and that sport domain knowledge and expertise are distinct constructs which play important roles in the perception of leaders within this context.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	sports organisations, leadership, domain expertise, leader credibility
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Sport and Exercise Science
Related URLs:	Publisher UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Steven Swanson
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2014 13:52
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 17:04
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3204

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