Types of professionalization

Lang, Grazia; Schlesinger, Torsten; Lamprecht, Markus; Ruoranen, Kaisa Reetta; Klenk, Christoffer; Bayle, Emmanuel; Clausen, Josephine; Giauque, David; Nagel, Siegfried

doi:10.1108/sbm-11-2017-0076

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“…associated clubs and members), it has professionalised instruments and documents, organisational structure and staff. In their study on professionalisation designs among Swiss NSFs, Lang et al (2018) examined professionalisation types among Swiss NSFs and classified the SOF in a group with primarily Olympic NSFs, whose professionalisation design is characterised by a particular focus on the professionalisation of the sport sector (i.e. paid trainers and support staff).…”

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“…Canadian NSFs, for example, were required to develop a wide range of written policies and procedures, employ paid and specialised staff and shift the decision-making authority from volunteers to professional staff (Amis et al 2004a). Other governments, such as Switzerland, have made only minor impositions in terms of professionalisation, such as the existence of a strategy (Lang et al 2018), and relied more on NSFs to self-regulate. These examples indicate that governments are concerned with the question of the extent to which sport policy imposes professionalisation processes on NSFs by setting, for example, standards and requirements as a condition of government funds.…”

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Challenges and opportunities arising from self-regulated professionalisation processes: an analysis of a Swiss national sport federation

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Klenk

Schlesinger

et al. 2020

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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In recent decades, some governments (e.g. Canada, the UK, Australia) have imposed far-reaching professionalisation processes on national sport federations (NSFs), while others (e.g. Switzerland) have made only minor impositions and relied more on NSFs to self-regulate. As governments must decide on the extent to which sport policy imposes professionalisation processes on NSFs, understanding the challenges and opportunities arising from both policy-imposed and self-regulated professionalisation processes is relevant. However, extant literature has focused mostly on professionalisation processes imposed by sport policy. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the context, action, content and outcome of self-regulated professionalisation processes to identify the challenges and opportunities arising from these processes. A framework of professionalisation and a corresponding processual approach build the conceptual background of this study. A single-case study is applied to enable a holistic and long-term analysis of the proceedings of a Swiss NSF's professionalisation processes. The results reveal the mechanisms of self-regulated professionalisation processes (i.e. how contexts and actions shape outcome), thus leading to a conceptualisation of these mechanisms and conclusions about challenges and opportunities arising from selfregulated professionalisation processes, which are useful for sport managers and policymakers.

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Challenges and opportunities arising from self-regulated professionalisation processes: an analysis of a Swiss national sport federation

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Klenk

Schlesinger

et al. 2020

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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“…In all five countries, the board chair represents the federation and is also responsible for overseeing the organization’s success. Even if the management processes of federations are becoming more “business-like” (Madella et al , 2005) and “professional” (Nagel et al , 2015), their governance is still typically structured like non-profit organizations (Lang et al , 2018) where the chairperson is elected by a collegial body involving the members of the federation or the heads of the local branches and/or their delegates (Table 1).…”

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Female chairs on the boards of European National Sports Federations: a comparative study

Salvador

Fernandes

Cimbrini

et al. 2023

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Purpose This study aims to explore the impact of board size, board gender diversity and federation age on the likelihood of having a female chair in National Sports Federations (NSF). Design/methodology/approach A quantitative methodology compares 300 sports boards in five countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the UK), using data collected from NSF’s websites. Findings The board size and federation age have no significant impact on having a female board chair when the countries and the percentage of female directors are included in the model. When the number of women is measured in absolute value rather than in relative terms, the only variable that predicts a woman chair is the country. When the model does not include country differences, the percentage of female directors is key in predicting a chairwoman, and when the number of women is used as a variable instead of the percentage, a board’s smaller size increases the odds of having a chairwoman. Research limitations/implications There are some limitations to this study which we believe provide useful directions for future research. Firstly, the authors have not considered the role of gender typing in sports activities which explains the extent that women participate in specific sports (Sobal and Milgrim, 2019) and the related perception of such sports in society. The social representation of sports activities classified as masculine, feminine or gender-neutral can hypothetically influence women’s access to that specific federations’s leadership. The authors included the country factor only partially, as a control variable, as the social representation of sports usually goes beyond national boundaries. Practical implications This study has implications for sport policymakers and stakeholders, and for institutions such as the IOC or the European Union that implement equality policies. If the aim is to increase female presence in the highest position of a sports board and to achieve gender equality more generally, other policies need to be implemented alongside gender quotas for the sports boards, namely, those specifically related to the recruitment and selection of the sports board chairs (Mikkonen et al., 2021). For example, given the implications of critical mass and its ability to increase more female’s engagement then the role of existing chairs acting as mentors and taking initiative in this objective may be warranted. Furthermore, attention should be paid to the existing gender portfolio of each board and its subsequent influence on recruiting a female chair, regardless of the organization’s age. Knoppers et al. (2021) concluded that resistance to gender balance by board members is often related to discriminatory discourses against women. The normalization of the discourses of meritocracy, neoliberalism, silence/passivity about the responsibility of structures and an artificial defence of diversity emphasise that equality should not only be determined by women (Knoppers et al., 2021). Social implications When countries are included in the model, the results suggest that the social representation of a female board member is different from that of a female board chair. Originality/value The originality of the study is that it shows the factors that constrain women taking up a chair position on NSFs. Theoretically, it contributes to existing literature by demonstrating how a critical mass of females on boards may also extend to the higher and most powerful position of chair.

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“…The lack of system inhibits the connotation of community work and residents' recognition of community work. The purposeful collection, analysis, and utilization of big data technology can produce results of social or economic value, so the data information base has become an intangible treasure house of resources [6]. Social work needs to explore how to make full use of big data to deliver professional social services more efficiently, advocate reasonable social policies more accurately so as to achieve professional goals, and explore the construction of theoretical system, research methods, and practice modes based on big data, that is, social work driven by big data [7].…”

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Decision-Making Model of Social Work Specialization Process Using Big Data Analysis and Chaos Cloud

Chen

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Big data and mobile edge computing information technology have revolutionized traditional industries’ development. The organic integration of community social work and big data technology will undoubtedly promote the growth of community social work services, thanks to the new information technology platform for big data. In terms of the future of big data-driven social work, it is primarily reflected in the following: in the application of social work, big data can acquire and update real human behavior data in real time, and eliminating the need for subjects’ subjective reports in the data collection process; It can also provide a basis for public decision-making, which is worthy of our active exploration and innovation, provide efficient and accurate technical means for risk population assessment and crisis intervention and have a more accurate and intuitive grasp of the temporal and spatial distribution of service personnel and basic social service facilities. The core of professionalization of social work is improving the post-setting system for social workers in our country, improving their treatment, and strengthening the construction of professional ethics for social workers in our country. A big data social workflow adaptive scheduling optimization algorithm based on the chaotic cloud diversion mechanism is proposed to address the problems of high costs, poor time convergence performance, and poor cost accounting quality in the current social workflow adaptive scheduling optimization algorithm. As an important part of social governance, social work accelerates the process of social work specialization to improve decision-making efficiency.

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Types of professionalization

Cited by 11 publications

References 40 publications

Challenges and opportunities arising from self-regulated professionalisation processes: an analysis of a Swiss national sport federation

Challenges and opportunities arising from self-regulated professionalisation processes: an analysis of a Swiss national sport federation

Female chairs on the boards of European National Sports Federations: a comparative study

Decision-Making Model of Social Work Specialization Process Using Big Data Analysis and Chaos Cloud

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