“Knowing That This Is My Place Is Very Positive”: The Case of a Swedish Table Tennis Club

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Michaela Elisabeth Karlsson ◽  
Natalia B. Stambulova ◽  
Kristoffer Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Talent Development ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Intensive Training ◽  
Psychosocial Skills ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Culture Centered

This case study is guided by the holistic ecological approach and aimed at (a) providing a holistic description of an athletic talent development environment using a table tennis club in Sweden as a case study and (b) examining the factors perceived as influential to the effectiveness of the club’s talent development. The holistic ecological approach’s two working models informed the data collection (through interviews, observation, and analysis of documents) and were subsequently transformed into empirical models, acting as a summary of the case. Findings revealed that the environment’s success in talent development can be seen as an outcome of the following key features: (a) flexible and supportive training groups, (b) opportunities to learn from senior elite athletes, (c) support through the club and sport-friendly schools, (d) support of the development of psychosocial skills, (e) regular and intensive training, (f) focus on long-term development and athletes as whole persons, (g) strong and coherent organizational culture centered around the basic assumption, “we are a community of committed members,” and (h) integrated efforts among the club and sport-friendly schools to support athletes’ development. This case study can inform other athletic talent development environments on how to optimize talent development processes.

scholarly journals An “Organizational Triangle” to Coordinate Talent Development: A Case Study in Danish Swimming

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Winthereik Mathorne ◽  
Kristoffer Henriksen ◽  
Natalia Stambulova
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis

This case study in Danish swimming was informed by a holistic ecological approach in talent development and aimed to explore (a) collaborative relationships between the Danish swimming federation, a municipality, and a local swimming club, termed “an organizational triangle,” and (b) factors influencing the success of their collaboration at the local level. Data collection and analysis were guided by the athletic-talent-development-environment (working) model and a newly developed collaboration-success-factors (CSF) model. Methods included interviews with talent-development coordinators representing the organizations and analysis of documents. Results allowed the authors to transform the CSF (working) model into an empirical model containing the collaboration preconditions (e.g., power to make decisions), processes (e.g., strategic planning), and initiatives (e.g., efficient use of the swimming pool) and shared assumptions of the talent-development philosophy (e.g., long-term focus). The success of this organizational triangle was visible in the way the organizations increased the quality of talent development in the local swimming club.

scholarly journals Reviewing the role of the environment in the talent development of a professional soccer club

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0246823
Author(s):  
Vincent Gesbert ◽  
Fabienne Crettaz von Roten ◽  
Denis Hauw
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Context Specific

This two-part study examined the perceptions of talented Swiss soccer players about their talent development environment. The first study presented the translation and validation of the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (TDEQ) into French using a recommended methodology for translating and culturally adapting questionnaires. Two hundred and three Swiss athletes (M = 16.99 years old) responded to the 25 items of the TDEQ-5. One item was excluded due to low factor loadings, and the descriptive statistics showed that the re-specified TDEQ-5 instrument had acceptable global model fit according to the thresholds in the literature (χ2 (df = 17) = 484.62, p<0.001, CFI = 0.91, TLI = 0.90, RMSEA = 0.07, SRMR = 0.06). This adaptation is thus valid for assessing the effectiveness of talent development processes. For the second study, a holistic design was used to examine the perceptions of a set of players embedded in a top-level Swiss soccer academy (i.e., 64 elite soccer players from 14 to 18 years old) by using the TDEQ-5. The results showed some relative strengths (i.e., F1-Long-Term Focus for the M15 and M16 age-groups) and weaknesses (i.e., F2-Alignment of Expectations for the M17 and M18 age -groups and F3-Communication for M17). They also highlighted that the talent pathways of these Swiss soccer players could not be summarized by a single type of transition toward a professional team. Rather, there were context-specific requirements, such as the critical period between the M15-M16 and M17-M18 age-groups, suggesting that when the players first entered their TDE they experienced a set of affordances to develop and flourish, which thereafter were perceived as less rich and/or abundant. These results offer a starting point for optimizing talent pathways.

scholarly journals The athlete talent development environment in the best ranked football academy in Norwegian football: The case of the U16 team in Stabæk football club

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 008
Author(s):  
Jon Stian Haukli ◽  
Carsten Hvid Larsen ◽  
Niels Feddersen ◽  
Stig Arve Sæther
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Extreme Case ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Psychosocial Skills ◽  
Espoused Values ◽  
History Of ◽  
Case Data

We used the holistic ecological approach to examine the talent development of Stabæk football club. Specifically, the male under-16 team. The environment was categorised as successful based on their history of developing senior elite players and being the highest ranked football academy in Norway. The study design was an explorative, integrative, and qualitative study considering an extreme case. Data collection included interviews, observations, and document analysis. The results showed that the environment shared features with other successful environments and deviated on other features. Our findings were consistent with research highlighting the importance of long-term development focus, supportive training groups, and support from the wider environment. However, we also found that the contrary to former research, success was not underpinned by a coherent organisational culture. Instead, there were several examples of ambiguity (e.g., between espoused values and actual behaviours). There was also a lack of integration of efforts, no support for developing psychosocial skills, lack of diversification, and a lack of proximal role models. Instead the club practiced early recruitment and specialisation, employed failure-focused coaching, and kept youth players away from role models. Our findings show that the club environment could be described as a successful, and yet, success does not necessarily equal all previously suggested successful features.

The Present Age: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Extended Treatment ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Media

This chapter deals with the question of historical mood: how to diagnose a mood, how to avoid obvious simplifications or idealizations, how to think through the relationships between a mood and its underlying conditions, what possibilities for transformation there are, and how moods affect agency. Trawling the media for comments about the present age it is hard to escape the language of passion and mood. Notable among these moral emotions are anger and ressentiment. Heidegger’s extended treatment of boredom opens up a deeper look at the significance of mood. Todays “mood” (anxiety, anger, ressentiment…) is tied both to short-term frustration (which may be cultural as well as economic), long term anxiety (what are our prospects?), and ultimate unsustainability (perhaps only dimly glimpsed). It is too easy to say that these are all problems of calculative time. But security, predictability (up to a point), and confidence in our ability to plan ahead enable a range of virtues. Finally, the relation between mood and agency—my frustration being tied to knowing that I alone cannot make much difference (though perhaps together we can)—is linked to the multiplicities of “we” in play, not only of agency, but also of constituency and impact.

Parents’ roles in talent development

2020 ◽  
pp. 026142942093443
Author(s):  
Linlin Luo ◽  
Kenneth A. Kiewra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Deliberate Practice ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Figure Skating ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Centers Of Excellence ◽  
Early Environment

Talent development research has uncovered common conditions for nurturing talented individuals: enriched early environment, appropriate instruction, long-term and deliberate practice, singleness of purpose, and centers of excellence. Talent research also reveals that parents play a critical role in arranging and facilitating these conditions and helping their child’s talent to blossom. This article reports six talent-nurturing things parents do according to case-study research by Kiewra and colleagues across various talent domains such as chess, figure skating, baton twirling, violin, writing, and spelling. Parents provide an enriched early environment, arrange for appropriate instruction, facilitate long-term and deliberate practice, support singleness of purpose, gravitate to or establish a center of excellence, and are fully committed and make life-changing sacrifices to nurture their child’s talents.

Talent development environment and workplace adaptation

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 370-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mageswari Kunasegaran ◽  
Maimunah Ismail ◽  
Roziah Mohd Rasdi ◽  
Ismi Arif Ismail ◽  
T. Ramayah
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Workplace Adaptation

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between talent development environment (TDE) variables of job focus and long-term development with the and workplace adaptation (WA) of Malaysian professional returnees as mediated by the organisational support. Design/methodology/approach A total of 130 respondents who are Malaysian professional returnees participated in this study. The hypotheses formulated for this study were tested using partial least square-structural equation modelling version 3. Findings The mediation analysis has revealed a significant relationship between job focus and long-term development on WA via organisational support. Six out of seven hypotheses were accepted. The finding also indicates that the long-term development construct has a strong impact on the WA of Malaysian professional returnees. Research limitations/implications This study focused only on professional returnees from selected sectors of the National Key Economic Areas in Malaysia. Practical implications Organisational support mediating WA should be capitalised on by human resource development practitioners in public and private sectors to assist professional returnees in their WA through the talent development approach specifically on job focus and long-term development. Originality/value The findings from this study extend the knowledge of WA in the context of professional returnees in a developing country, Malaysia. The integration between the selected TDE variables and WA with the mediating function of organisational support adds new insights into the process of WA.

scholarly journals Minimizing the supply temperature at the district heating plant – dynamic optimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 02004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Chicherin ◽  
Lyazzat Junussova ◽  
Timur Junussov
Keyword(s):  
Promising Result ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Heat Losses ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Pump Station ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Point Set

The constraint contains two elements, namely the heat losses and the electricity consumption for pumping at the producer. The aim was to achieve the lowest acceptable costs in an operation. The options with the supply temperature at the area starting point set to 80/60, then 60/40, and eventually 50/30 (low temperature, 4th generation district heating) were tested. The balance between the savings due to lower heat losses and the electricity consumption of pumps could be performed to assess the economic viability of the solution. This means that if the electricity price is sufficiently high, the model will always choose to minimize electricity consumption and thereby, maximise the profit from high temperature difference. Results concerning heat losses consider both experiences of proper insulation of pipes with variety of design outdoor temperatures (DOTs) and long term measurements from a pump station for district heating (DH) network in Canberra, Australia. We also noted that the heat energy tariffs and purchase price of electricity affect a lot optimal configuration of a DH system. For the best scenario, solutions are obtained that reach over 12% of the available saving potential after calculating 11 equations. Knowing that the policy is updated on a case study base, this is considered a promising result.

scholarly journals Case Study on Sustainability Projects of Sri Lankan Top-notch Apparel Company

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.B.B.U. Mandawala ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Employee Recruitment ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
A Company

This case study is mainly focused on observing the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of a top-notch apparel company in Sri Lanka. With this case study authors are expecting to study the willingness and capability of a business to engage in CSR projects and to observe the behaviour of such CSR projects in a selected company. At present, CSR is indeed one of the most debated and discussed topic. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to find out whether the CSR projects undertaken by a company would help to safeguard consumer’s preferences and reduced the poverty of the consumer. This study has discouraged authors to recognize that CSR has a positive impact on consumers’ behaviour. In many cases, these projects have enabled the company to recruit new employees to the business, thus reduced employee recruitment cost. The selected group’s principal CSR efforts are driven by the central corporate theme of water and are planned and executed by the “Bindu” Foundation established by the Group for the purpose. These efforts represent a long-term commitment to increasing the availability of water and the provision of safe drinking water to those most in need. Mainly, their CSR projects are based on categories such as; Education, Health, Community Live-hood Development, Environment, Arts and Culture. The company embrace following CSR projects under these categories. Ran Daru Thilina, Model Village, Blood Drive, P.A.C.E program, Care for Their Own project, and Rasadiya Mangallaya. Through these projects, this apparel leader aims to alleviate the poverty of the society, uplift the lifestyles of the employees and consumers, minimize the harm caused by the business, protect the environment and enhance their business reputation.

scholarly journals Talent Development Environments in Football: Comparing the Top-Five and Bottom-Five-Ranked Football Academies in Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1321
Author(s):  
Kristian Gangsø ◽  
Nils Petter Aspvik ◽  
Ingar Mehus ◽  
Rune Høigaard ◽  
Stig Arve Sæther
Keyword(s):  
Talent Development ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Team Environment

Background: The aim of this study was to examine junior-elite football players’ perception of their talent development environment by comparing clubs ranked as the top-five and bottom-five in the 2017 Norwegian academy classification. Methods: In total, 92 male junior-elite football players recruited from under-19 teams from five professional football club academies took part in the study. The Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (TDEQ-5; Martindale et al. 2010) was used to measure the players’ perceptions of their team environment. Results: The subscale long-term development focus and support network had the highest score and indicated that they perceived that the environment was high quality with respect to those factors. Players from the top-five-ranked clubs perceived their development environments to be significantly more positive with respect to holistic quality preparation, alignment of expectations, communication and, compared to players from the bottom-five-ranked clubs. Conclusions: The players’ perceptions of the talent development environment seem to be in alignment of the academy classification undertaken by the Norwegian top football association.

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