Social identity leadership in sport and exercise: Current status and future directions

Stevens, Mark R.; Rees, Tim; Cruwys, Tegan

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101931

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“…Not only does it take place all around the world (van Dick et al, 2018;van Dick & Kerschreiter, 2016) but so too its concerns extend well beyond the traditional focus of leadership research on questions of work and organization. Today, then, as Figure 2 attests, the frontiers of research on social identity and leadership are found in fields as far-flung as sport (Fransen et al, 2015(Fransen et al, , 2016Krug et al, 2020;McLaren et al, 2021;Slater & Barker, 2019), health Lee et al, 2021), exercise (Miller et al, 2021;Stevens et al, 2021;Steffens et al, 2019), politics (Crano & Gaffney, 2021;Gaffney et al, 2014;Mols et al, 2022;Jetten et al, 2021), economics (Akerlof, 2020;Steffens et al, 2020), and theology (Barentsen, 2015;Esler, 2021). As Akerlof (2020, p.xx) observes, the social identity approach is one for all our "we's".…”

Section: Identity Leadershipmentioning

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Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework

Haslam¹,

Gaffney²,

Hogg³

et al. 2022

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Research exploring the powerful links between leadership and identity has burgeoned in recent years but cohered around two distinct approaches. Research on identity leadership, the main focus of this special issue, sees leadership as a group process that centers on leaders’ ability to represent, advance, create and embed a social identity that they share with the collectives they lead —a sense of “us as a group”. Research on leader identity sees leadership as a process that is advanced by individuals who have a well-developed personal understanding of themselves as leaders—a sense of “me as a leader”. This article explores the nature and implications of these divergent approaches, focusing on their specification of profiles, processes, pathways, products, and philosophies that have distinct implications for theory and practice. We formalize our observations in a series of propositions and also outline a dual-identity framework with the potential to integrate the two approaches.

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Section: Identity Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework

Haslam¹,

Gaffney²,

Hogg³

et al. 2022

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“…Given the importance of the quality of these leadership groups, in the next stage, the leadership potential of the appointed athlete leaders should ideally be further developed. In recent years, an alternative approach to understanding effective leadership within sport teams has posited that athlete leaders are only effective to the extent that they are able to create and manage a shared social identity within their team ( Haslam et al, 2020 ; Fransen et al, 2020a ; Stevens et al, 2021 ). In other words, these leaders encourage their teammates to not only think, feel and behave as individuals (in terms of personal identity as ‘I’ and ‘me’), but also, and more importantly, as group members (in terms of a shared social identity as ‘we’ and ‘us’).…”

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Athlete Leadership Development Within Teams: Current Understanding and Future Directions

2022

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Leadership has been shown to be a fundamental factor influencing the performance of sport teams. Within these teams, leadership can be provided by coaches, formal athlete leaders, such as team captains, and other ‘informal’ athlete leaders. The role of the athlete leader in a team, either formal or informal, has been consistently reported over the last 10 years to have a significant impact upon a teams’ functioning and effectiveness, as well as teammates’ general health and mental wellbeing. As such, cultivating the provision of this leadership within a team has emerged as an important focus for managers, coaches, sport psychologists and scholars alike. While the recognition of the importance of athlete leadership is well established, there has been a lag in the development of systematic approaches to enhance and develop the leadership skills and capabilities of the athletes within sport teams. As a result, this paper seeks to review contemporary examples and current understanding of approaches to athlete leadership development. The paper will also highlight future areas for research and applied practice development.

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“…Although this proved successful here, the lack of training was recognised as a potential limitation in the programme [ 6 ] and so in future, as well as ensuring the coaches have the characteristics outlined here, ensuring the coaches have standardised training to deliver the programme may enhance its effectiveness. This may also include adding aspects of identity leadership to enhance the creation of a social identity between group members [ 46 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Factors Influencing Men’s Experiences and Engagement with the Rugby Fans in Training—New Zealand Pilot Trial: A Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Men

Marsh

Maddison

2021

Healthcare

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Health promotion programs designed specifically to support men to improve their lifestyle behaviours are required to improve men’s health. This study explored factors that influenced men’s experiences of, and engagement with, the Rugby Fans in Training—New Zealand pilot trial, a professional sport-based healthy lifestyle intervention for overweight men. Thirty-five men (mean age = 45, SD = 10 years) who completed the 12-week intervention participated in one of eight semi-structured focus groups. Using inductive thematic analysis, five themes represented the meanings in the data. First, a group of like-minded men all in the same boat recognised the importance of being in similar life situations and having similar reasons for joining the programme. Second, the men described the importance of the support and motivation provided by the team atmosphere created through the programme. Third, the motivational coach recognised the characteristics, skills and knowledge of the coach delivering the programme which created engagement with it. Fourth, the education sessions were valued for the knowledge gained and underpinning philosophies that guided them. Finally, the involvement of the rugby franchise influenced commitment to the programme and created initial interest. These results provide evidence for the key components that should be incorporated into the future development of and improvement to healthy lifestyle interventions for men.

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Social identity leadership in sport and exercise: Current status and future directions

Cited by 30 publications

References 76 publications

Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework

Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework

Athlete Leadership Development Within Teams: Current Understanding and Future Directions

Factors Influencing Men’s Experiences and Engagement with the Rugby Fans in Training—New Zealand Pilot Trial: A Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Men

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