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Sport Club Management
ARTICLE REVIEW AND PRESENTATION
Experience-Based Leadership Development and
Professional Sport Organizations
Stephen Frawley, Daniel Favaloro, and Nico Schulenkorf
University of Technology Sydney
LÊ HIẾU NGHĨA
Masters student
Ton Duc Thang University
Faculty of Sport Science

2.
The Structure
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Method
4. Result and findings
5. Conclusion

3.
Introduction
- Experience-based leadership development and
professional sport organizations.
- Leadership is an important function of management
- Leadership development within the highly competitive
sport industry and actual situation of scholarly research
within the sport management field, particularly from an
Australian perspective.

4.
Introduction
- The nature of experience-based leadership development
practices
- Despite the growing of this area study, there has been
limited reasearch
- The central purpose of this study, reasearch method and
findings in this article

5.
Literature Review
- The field of leadership development
- Leadership development has also become a more critical
feature for organizations
- The importance of leadership development in quality
organizations and businesses

6.
Literature Review
- Including three matters:
1. Leadership Development
2. Experience-Based Leadership Development
3. Leadership Development and Sport Management

7.
Method
 Subject:
- Leadership development, Experience-Based Leadership
Development and Professional Sport Organizations.
 Intervention:
- Twenty-three people from across the three organizations
and in total, 15 senior managers (12 males and three
females) agreed to be interviewed.
- Semistructured interviews were conducted with the CEO
and Chief Operating Officers of all three organizations.

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Method
 Procedures:
- Using a qualitative multicase study approach, qualitative
research method, through the thematic analysis of 15 in-
depth semistructured interviews with members of the
senior executive of each case organization
- Semi-structured interview
- In-depth Interview

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Method
 Statistical:
- All qualitative data were organized with the help of NVivo
(QSR International, Melbourne, Australia), a software
program that facilitates the systematic coding and data
management processes.

10.
Result And Main Findings
- Findings from the study are presented below in four main
thematic categories.
1. The first category presents data from the respondents,
outlining the importance of experience-based
opportunities for leadership development.
2. The second category examines how experience can
lead to leadership development through involvement
and exposure.

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Result And Main Findings
- Findings from the study are presented below in four main
thematic categories.
3. The third category explains how networking
opportunities arose from experienced-based exposure.
4. The fourth and final category explores the relationship
between experience and education within each of the
organizations that took part in the study.

12.
Conclusion
- Leadership development is a great importance within the
highly competitive sport industry, where leadership
performance is under constant and ever-increasing
scrutiny.
- The study specifically investigated the practices of three
of Australia’s leading national sporting organizations.
Overall, a great deal of emphasis on experience-based
opportunities as a way of developing their workforce
rather than more formal means of leadership training.

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Conclusion
- Four main themes emerged from the study via the adoption of
McCall’s (2010) experience-based leadership development
framework.
1. The importance of experience-based opportunities for
leadership development
2. Leadership development through involvement and exposure
to experiences
3. Networking opportunities gained from experienced-based
exposure
4. The relationship between on-the-job experience and formal
leadership education

14.
Conclusion
- This study and its specific findings have implications for
current practice.
- “Every organization can benefit from a mix of performance
coaches, career coaches, role models, and taskmasters
who continually elevate performance expectations”.
- Identifying, using, and leveraging the available leadership
potential remain key challenges for professional sport
organizations.

15.
Conclusion
- In summary, leadership development has evolved over
the past few decades and is now regarded as a critical
component for organizations, especially those that
continually need to build leadership talent.
- Organizations that can build leadership development
practices with a clear and effective structure.

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Conclusion
- Overall, the study’s findings extend their knowledge of the
current leadership development and practices
implemented in NSOs and highlight the importance of
effective leadership within highly competitive sport
markets.
- Experience-Based Leadership Development and
Professional Sport Organizations