Unlocking the power of job design in sports: a systematic review and future research agenda

Mohsen Loghmani; Popi Sotiriadou; Jason Doyle

doi:10.1080/14413523.2023.2261659

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Unlocking the power of job design in sports: a systematic review and future research agenda

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Unlocking the power of job design in sports: a systematic review and future research agenda

Mohsen Loghmani, Popi Sotiriadou and Jason Doyle

Sport Management Review, Vol.27(2), pp.254-279

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2023.2261659

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Abstract

sport industry

job charactersitcs

job crafting

sport volunteer

human resource management

job design

Using a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review (SQLR) approach, this article consolidates studies on the job characteristics (top-down process of job design) and job crafting (bottom-up process of job design) components of sport-related jobs. The SQLR maps the emerging research topic of job design in sport and provides a research direction agenda to guide scholarship. Out of 5,974 retrieved documents, a total of 187 academic articles published in English journals between 1988 and 2021 matched the selected terms in title or abstract or keywords. Following a deductive coding process using NVivo 12, the results demonstrated that previous research has been undertaken mainly over the last 15 years with a focus on job characteristics (77%) compared with job crafting (23%). The emphasis in prior research is placed on: (1) sport managers' "task" and "knowledge" job characteristics; (2) coaches' "social" job characteristics; (3) referees' "contextual" job characteristics, and (4) athletic trainers' "work - life crafting". Findings were used to develop two models representing the top-down and bottom-up processes of job design in sport. The top-down model illustrates that: task and knowledge job characteristics influence attitudinal and behavioural outcomes; contextual job characteristics build only well-being outcomes; and social job characteristics predict a wide range of job outcomes. The bottom-up model highlights the significance of approach relational crafting, avoidance task crafting and work - life crafting in shaping behavioural and well-being outcomes. The most understudied area is job crafting among sport volunteers, a gap worth examining further in future research.

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Title: Unlocking the power of job design in sports: a systematic review and future research agenda
Authors: Mohsen Loghmani (Corresponding Author) - Griffith University
Popi Sotiriadou - Griffith University
Jason Doyle - Griffith University
Publication details: Sport Management Review, Vol.27(2), pp.254-279
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date published: 2024
DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2023.2261659
ISSN: 1839-2083
Copyright note: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991231130202621
Output Type: Journal article

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