ABSTRACT

Research question: The increased competitive demands placed on modern sports organisations, intensifies pressures on coaches to produce positive results. These factors may increase relational tensions between managerial-sports leaders (administrators) and the leaders of sports teams (coaches). Few studies have explored the challenges facing coaches when attempting to achieve performance success. Utilising institutional logics and the concepts of trust and power, this study investigated the relationship between coaches and administrators by exploring the various interactions and negotiations involved when in the context of competitive demands.

Research methods: The views of thirteen highly experienced cricket coaches, with multi-layered coaching experiences operating in the South African cricket development environment, were recruited for semi-structured interviews, raising several significant themes.

Results and findings: A significant challenge to coaches were administrators exhibiting a lack of understanding of the environment required to develop cricketers, providing areas of conflict such as; perceived differences in priorities leading to non-collaborative, ill-judged and, at times biased decisions; differences in priorities affecting resource allocation to drive and sustain long-term development due short-term financial decision-making and result-driven agendas.

Implications: Theoretically, this research explores how institutional logics, trust and power enhance our understanding of the coach-administrator relationship and have potential research implications for understanding similar dynamic relationships in other sport organisations. Practically, one implication for sports organisations is the role and importance of developing and applying more effective coach performance management system to alleviate potential problems in these relationships.

摘要

研究问题：对现代体育组织提出的日益增加的竞争要求，加剧了教练员产生积极成果的压力。这些因素可能会增加体育管理领导者（管理员）和运动队领导者（教练）之间的关系紧张。很少有研究探讨教练在尝试实现绩效成功时面临的挑战。本研究利用制度逻辑以及信任和权力的概念，通过探索在竞争需求的背景下所涉及的各种互动和谈判，调查了教练和管理人员之间的关系。

研究方法：招募了 13 名经验丰富的板球教练的观点，他们在南非板球发展环境中拥有多层次的教练经验，他们被招募进行半结构化访谈，提出了几个重要的主题。

结果和发现：教练面临的一个重大挑战是管理人员对培养板球运动员所需的环境缺乏了解，提供冲突领域，例如；对优先事项的感知差异导致不合作、判断错误，有时甚至是有偏见的决定；由于短期财务决策和以结果为导向的议程，影响资源分配以推动和维持长期发展的优先事项的差异。

启示：从理论上讲，这项研究探索了制度逻辑、信任和权力如何增强我们对教练-管理者关系的理解，并对理解其他体育组织中类似的动态关系具有潜在的研究意义。实际上，体育组织的一个含义是开发和应用更有效的教练绩效管理系统以缓解这些关系中的潜在问题的作用和重要性。