Decision making and decision communications in elite rugby union referees: An inductive investigation

Cunningham, Ian; Mellick, Mikel; Mascarenhas, Duncan

doi:10.53841/bpssepr.2012.8.2.23

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“…The role and position of the sport official (referees, technical officials, and umpires), while essential to all levels of organized sport, is challenging and demanding. Officials need to make accurate, consistent, and often unpopular decisions in high-pressure environments (Cunningham et al, 2018), and at the elite level, the demands are heightened by larger audiences and television broadcasts, as well as commentary on their performance by players, coaches and the media (Cunningham et al, 2012). Officials are also required to make multiple decisions during a game, often consecutively within a short timeframe.…”

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The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball

Marshall

McNeil

Seal

et al. 2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Sport official's experience of abuse in their role is well documented, but the additional gendered barriers that women officials face are not. This study used Concept Mapping to explore the most important and frequent barriers that women referees and officials in Australian basketball face. Results were analyzed according to the Socio-Ecological Framework with a feminist lens, which demonstrated the complexity and interconnectedness of barriers between different levels. While participants were not specifically asked about gendered experiences, the results indicated that barriers were overwhelmingly gendered at every level, including discriminatory resourcing, lack of senior women, and concerningly, incidents of sexual harassment. This research sheds new light on the experience of women officials and the organizational and societal barriers that limit their careers and make their workplace unsafe. Finally, it discusses where the locus of responsibility lies in addressing these issues for women sport officials, placing emphasis on the role of organizations.

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The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball

Marshall

McNeil

Seal

et al. 2022

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage

Cunningham

Simmons

Mascarenhas

2018

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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10Communication is central to managing perceptions of fairness and performance in sport officiating. Most of the 11 few studies that focus on sport official communication have been limited to 'one-way' impressions and decision 12 communication and tend to neglect more dynamic, dialogic interactions with players. This study explored sport 13 officials' identity concerns and motivations and ways officials adapt and accommodate 'face' in interactions with 14 players. Design: Qualitative methodology Method: Video elicitation interviews using an allo-confrontation 15 approach were conducted with 8 male and 6 female sport officials from 7 different team sports representing 16 novice to professional levels. Goffman's (1959; 1967) dramaturgical sociology of interaction was used to frame 17 identity projections and context in officials' communication management strategies. Findings: Analysis of 18 interview transcripts revealed three distinct ways officials' face concerns emerge and are managed in 19 interactions with players including (1) anticipating players' reactions and modifying presentation of self, (2) 20 asserting and preserving the officials' own face, and (3) giving and restoring players' face. When incompatible 21 interactional exchanges occur in sport matches, officials use different defensive and corrective face-work 22 strategies to assert, re-establish, or appropriate face statuses for themselves and players. Conclusions: The 23 findings highlight the importance of dynamics and context in sport official communication. They also emphasise 24 the need to maintain relationships, preserve and protect identities, whilst being strategic in interactions with 25 players. We conclude that new conceptualisations are needed in sport official communication to build on 26 current 'one-way' concepts that dominate officiating research and training.27 28

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Inter-individual differences in sport refereeing: A review of theory and practice

Avugos

MacMahon

Bar‐Eli

et al. 2021

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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Decision making and decision communications in elite rugby union referees: An inductive investigation

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball

The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball

Sport officials' strategies for managing interactions with players: Face-work on the front-stage

Inter-individual differences in sport refereeing: A review of theory and practice

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