1st Edition

Sport Officiating Recruitment, Development, and Retention

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Sport officials are tasked with maintaining order and adjudicating sport contests. Given their multifaceted role in enforcing rules, standardizing competitions, and keeping sport safe for all participants, they are a requisite part of the sport workforce. With ongoing reports of annual attrition rates in officiating in excess of 20-35% for various sports around the world, there is more than... Read more

1. Introduction to Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Sport Officials

2. Sociohistorical Constructions of Officiating and Officiating Research

3. A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Sport Officials

4. Individual Variation among Sport Officials: Categorizing Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics

5. All Sports Are Not Created Equal: Identifying the Complexities of the Officiating Task

6. Valuing Sport Officials: Constructing the Optimal Officiating Environment

7. Developing and Implementing Officiating Development Plans/Programs

8. Evaluating Your Officiating Development Program

9. Emerging Issues in Sport and Sport Officiating

Biography

Lori Livingston is the Provost and Vice-President, Academic and a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Susan L. Forbes is an Adjunct Professor and Manager of the Teaching and Learning Centre at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Nick Wattie is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Ian Cunningham is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.