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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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posted on 2016-03-17, 11:40 authored by Steve Swanson, Aubrey KentThe 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. © 2014 Human Kinetics, Inc.
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- Loughborough University London
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Journal of Sport ManagementVolume
28Issue
1Pages
81 - 93Citation
SWANSON, S. 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.Publisher
© Human Kinetics Publishing as accepted for publicationVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014-01-01Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Sport Management and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2012-0253ISSN
0888-4773eISSN
1543-270XPublisher version
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- en
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