Positive organizational psychology in sport: An ethnography of organizational functioning in a national sport organization
Author
Wagstaff, Christopher R.D.
Fletcher, David
Hanton, Sheldon
Date
2012Type
Article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN
1533-1571
Metadata
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The 9-month ethnography reported here investigated the critical factors underpinning organizational functioning in a national sport organization. The findings illustrate the pivotal importance of interpersonal relationships and highlight the emergence of emotion-related abilities as highly influential in successful person-organization dynamics. Specifically, these related to managing conflict, communicating emotion, managing and expressing emotion for the psychological contract, contagious emotion regulation, and emotion regulation for building strong relationships. Individuals better able to monitor and manage their own emotions and those of others were able to develop and maintain more successful interpersonal relationships during a period of organizational change.
Journal/conference proceeding
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Citation
Wagstaff, C., Fletcher, D. and Hanton, S. (2012) 'Positive organizational psychology in sport: An ethnography of organizational functioning in a national sport organization', Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 24(1), pp.26-47.
Description
This article was published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology on 27 December 2011 (online), available at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2011.589423
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- Sport Research Groups [951]