- Title
- Sports policy development and implementation in context : Researching and understanding the perceptions of community end-users
- Creator
- Donaldson, Alex; Leggett, Susan; Finch, Caroline
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/36631
- Identifier
- vital:4841
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690211422009
- Identifier
- ISSN:1012-6902
- Abstract
- Ensuring community clubs implement centrally developed sports policy is a challenge for most sports. One hundred and eighty four (70% male, 68% aged 40 to 59 years) community Australian football club representatives (first-aid providers, administrators, parents, coaches, etc.) from across the country provided their perceptions of an Australian Football League-developed sports trainer policy and associated workforce training structure (jointly referred to hereafter as 'the policy') via an online survey. This article presents a qualitative analysis of the open-ended questions within the survey using the analytical lens of symbolic interactionism. Respondents generally supported the intent of the policy and identified many potential benefits of the policy, if adopted. They also provided insight into the organization and operation of community sports clubs and stressed that the volunteer intensive nature of community sport needs to be accommodated in the policy to enhance the likelihood of community-level acceptance and implementation. Successful community club implementation of this type of centrally developed micro-level sport policy requires that policy-makers understand and address the implementation context-related perspectives raised in this study. © The Author(s) 2011.
- Relation
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport Vol. 47, no. 6 (2012), p. 743-760; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
- Rights
- Copyright 2011 The Authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1608 Sociology; 1504 Commercial Services; Community club perspective; First-aid; Implementation context; Policy; Safety
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