scholarly journals Exploring the skill of recruiting in the Australian Football League

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare MacMahon ◽  
Aisling Bailey ◽  
Morag Croser ◽  
Juanita Weissensteiner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Head Coach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Decision Style ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was designed to explore the skill of recruiting in the professional Australian Football League, with a particular interest in the approach to decision making and information processing. The research design utilised semi-structured interviews and a survey instrument. A total of 12 participants comprised of 11 active head recruiters representing 11 Australian Football League Clubs, and one former expert Australian Football League recruiter undertook semi-structured, in-depth interviews to provide insight into recruitment decision making. Additionally, all participants completed a survey determining preferences for intuitive and deliberative decision-making styles. A model created represents the identification of four influential factors in the recruitment approach including (a) recruiter background; (b) recruiter attributes; (c) recruiter understanding of team needs and (d) recruiter–coach relationship. In particular, recruiters revealed that the style of decision making they use is influenced by the relationship with the head coach. Recruiting as a stand-alone position is not well understood. This work shows that both intuition and deliberation are used, the extent to which appears to be influenced by the recruiter–coach relationship. This work offers a strong base to further explore recruiting and talent identification in professional sport, and, particularly, how relationships influence decision style and performance.

scholarly journals Understanding Relationship between Milestone and Decision-Making in Project Management: A Qualitative Study among Project Managers in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umar Altahtooh ◽  
Thamir Alaskar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pragmatic Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the importance of milestone as a key knowledge in project management, there has been lack of research to understand the relationship between milestones and decision-making. This paper presents a pragmatic research context that aims understanding the nature of milestones and their relationship with different decision-making structures and responsibilities across projects. Data were collected through 14 semi-structured interviews with project managers and analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings explore the concepts of project milestones among project managers in Saudi Arabia. The paper finds that there is a relationship between milestones and the impact on decision-making.

An exploratory investigation into the reception of verbal and video feedback provided to players in an Australian Football League club

2020 ◽  
pp. 174795412095108
Author(s):  
Robert J Mason ◽  
Damian Farrow ◽  
John AC Hattie
Keyword(s):  
Video Feedback ◽  
Learner Characteristics ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
Test Feedback ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Coach observation studies commonly examine training and competition environments, with little attention paid to the ways in which coaches provide video feedback in a performance analysis setting. In addition, few studies have considered the reception of feedback by an athlete, or the characteristics of the athlete that may support or hinder feedback reception. The purposes of this study were threefold. First, to examine the characteristics of feedback provided by a coach during a typical video feedback meeting. Second, to measure the impact of this feedback on athlete learning. Third, to consider a range of learner characteristics that may impact feedback reception. Six coaches and six players affiliated with an Australian Football League (AFL) club were recruited. Coach-player dyads were observed in one-to-one video feedback meetings following a game played in the 2017 season. Players were interviewed to test feedback recall. Players also completed a series of tests designed to measure learner characteristics, with the intention of discovering moderating factors of the relationship between feedback and learning outcomes. Rates of feedback generally mirrored those found in previous studies. Coaches provided nearly 30 feedback messages during each meeting. Players recalled 50% of summarised feedback messages but just 6% of all feedback a week later. A ceiling effect on learner characteristics was observed. The paper presents a novel design for examining feedback effectiveness while considering learner characteristics. Given the findings on feedback quantity and recall, coaches are encouraged to adopt a ‘less is more’ approach to providing feedback.

Power and Influence Strategies in Violent and Nonviolent Marriages

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Hanson Frieze ◽  
Maureen C. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Influence Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

How important is the use of physical violence in determining the balance of power within marriage? Do women in violent marriages make more use of indirect strategies in attempting to persuade their husbands than do women in nonviolent marriages? Is marital satisfaction related to influence styles? These questions are investigated by looking at decision making in couples and how this is related to the forms of influence strategies used by wives and husbands in violent and nonviolent marriages. Data from in-depth structured interviews with 137 self-identified battered wives and 137 comparison wives, some of whom were also found to have experienced violence from their husbands, are used to answer these questions. Results indicated that women with violent husbands used more influence strategies overall, although these women had less overall power in terms of decision making than did women with nonviolent husbands. The relationship of influence strategies to decision making was different for women with violent husbands than for those whose husbands were not violent. As expected, the use of coercive strategies related negatively to marital happiness, whereas positive strategies were positively predictive. Violence and other negative strategies should be included in future research on influence strategies in close relationships, and a positive–negative dimension should be included as a way of categorizing influence strategies.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Structured Activity and Deliberate Play to the Development of Expert Perceptual and Decision-Making Skill

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Berry ◽  
Bruce Abernethy ◽  
Jean Côté
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Team Sport ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Structured Activities ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Deliberate Play

The developmental histories of 32 players in the Australian Football League (AFL), independently classified as either expert or less skilled in their perceptual and decision-making skills, were collected through a structured interview process and their year-on-year involvement in structured and deliberate play activities retrospectively determined. Despite being drawn from the same elite level of competition, the expert decision-makers differed from the less skilled in having accrued, during their developing years, more hours of experience in structured activities of all types, in structured activities in invasion-type sports, in invasion-type deliberate play, and in invasion activities from sports other than Australian football. Accumulated hours invested in invasion-type activities differentiated between the groups, suggesting that it is the amount of invasion-type activity that is experienced and not necessarily intent (skill development or fun) or specificity that facilitates the development of perceptual and decision-making expertise in this team sport.

scholarly journals Priority Factors of Online Food Purchasing By Young Muslims

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Fitri Eka Aliyanti ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Rheyza Virgiawan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Food Purchasing ◽  
Food Purchases ◽  
Online Purchase

This research is purposed to determine the factors that influence online food purchase decision making, by classifying them into certain classifications, namely primary dish, snack, and beverage, and emphasizing on purchase made online by Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta students. Furthermore, this research analyzes how halal awareness influences their purchasing decisions. The primary data sources were obtained using semi-structured interviews. The method of data analysis was performed by ranking respondents' answers using the scoring method. The result of this research shows that the most influential factors in purchasing decision making are halal awareness, with a sequence of elements from the most prioritized to those not as follows: halal awareness, favorite/preferences, taste, price, health, curiosity, advertisement, lifestyle, packaging, then bandwagon effect, and themost important factor influencing food online purchase decisions is halal awareness. Thus, from this study, it can be concluded that the majority of UII students have considered the halal aspect when making online food purchases.

scholarly journals Information Sharing and Decision-Making: Attempts by Ghanaian Return Migrants to Enter through Libya

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-234
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Koomson-Yalley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between irregular migration, access to information and migration decisions. Using semi-structured interviews of thirty irregular return migrants who failed to reach their European destinations through Libya, I show that irregular return migrants from Ghana rely predominantly on interpersonal sources, including colleagues, neighbors, friends and relatives, for information on migration. Return migrants seek information from those who have relevant experience with that kind of migration. Existing research focuses on information from ‘formal’ sources such as traditional print media, social media, library or workshops. Here I argue that this focus on access to information conceals the activities and practices of irregular return migrants who perceive European destinations as ‘greener pastures’ and seek information to travel through dangerous routes. Most irregular return migrants interviewed in this study indicated they had access to information from ‘informal’ sources often shared as ‘jokes.’ Although irregular return migrants perceive the information they gather through their everyday activities as reliable, their interactions involve complex and unstructured social processes.

scholarly journals Do Personal Differences and Organizational Factors Influence Nurses’ Decision Making? A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 714-727
Author(s):  
Rana Alaseeri ◽  
Aziza Rajab ◽  
Maram Banakhar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Qualitative Research Design

Decision-making processes (DMPs) can be altered by several factors that might impact patient outcomes. However, nurses’ views and experiences regarding the multitude of personal and organizational factors that may facilitate or inhibit their decision-making abilities have rarely been studied. Purpose: To explore the personal and organizational factors that influence nurse DMPs in clinical settings at Ministry of Health hospitals (MOH). Method: A qualitative research design was conducted. A purposive sample of 52 nurses was recruited from general and critical wards in two major Ministry of Health hospitals in Hail, Saudi Arabia. A total of eight focus groups (semi-structured interviews) were conducted to elicit participant responses. Results: In this study, the personal differences covered nurses’ experience, physical and psychological status, autonomy, communication skills, values, and cultural awareness. Organizational factors included the availability of resources, organizational support, workload, the availability of educational programs, the availability of monitoring programs, and the consistency and unity of policies, rules, and regulation applications. Conclusions: The major contribution of this study is the comprehensive illustration of influential factors at both the personal level and the organizational level that impact DMPs to achieve desired outcomes for patients and health organizations. This study utilizes a framework that could explain the nature of nurse DMPs.

scholarly journals SKUPINE ČIMBENIKA I NJIHOV UTJECAJ NA VAŽNE ŽIVOTNE ODLUKE: BESKUĆNICI U PULI

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-299
Author(s):  
Katarina Kostelić ◽  
Emanuel Peruško
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Risk Reduction Measures ◽  
Reported Data

GROUPS OF FACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON IMPORTANT LIFE DECISIONS: THE HOMELESS IN PULA The socially unfavorable status of the homeless is still not sufficiently supported by risk-reduction measures of homelessness in Croatia, which indicates the need for additional research of aggravating factors and development of prevention measures. Based on a review of current knowledge about the homeless, two opposing approaches are observed: the homelessness as a result of a set of circumstances and the homelessness as one’s own choice. The approach used in this paper is a combination of the above and refers to the review of groups of influencing factors and their role in respondents’ decision-making that preceded the situation of homelessness. The aim of this paper is to set the theoretical basis for investigation of influential factors in the context of decision-making that preceded homelessness and to present the results of exploratory research based on the purposive sampling (users of the »Homeless Shelter of the Red Cross Pula«). The questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used for obtaining self-reported data based on respondents’ recollections of situations in which they made relevant socioeconomic decisions in their lives. The results indicate that the respondents’ homelessness situation was preceded by decision-making with a combination of at least three influential factors from different groups of aggravating influences. The observed regularities are the basis for further research. Key words: homelessness, influences on decision-making, individual factors, strudtural factors

scholarly journals Team numerical advantage in Australian rules football: A missing piece of the scoring puzzle?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254591
Author(s):  
Jeremy P. Alexander ◽  
Timothy Bedin ◽  
Karl B. Jackson ◽  
Sam Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Tracking Data ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Match Play ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Player Tracking ◽  
Australian Rules Football ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Numerical Advantage

The primary aim of this study was to determine the relationship between a team numerical advantage during structured phases of play and match event outcomes in professional Australian football. The secondary aim was to quantify how players occupy different sub-areas of the playing field in match play, while accounting for match phase and ball location. Spatiotemporal player tracking data and play-by-play event data from professional players and teams were collected from the 2019 Australian Football League season played at a single stadium. Logistic regression analysed the relationship between total players and team numerical advantage during clearances and inside 50’s. Total players and team numerical advantage were also quantified continuously throughout a match, which were separated into three match phases (offence, defence, and stoppage) and four field positions (defensive 50, defensive midfield, attacking midfield, and forward 50). Results identified an increased team numerical advantage produced a greater likelihood of gaining possession from clearances or generating a score from inside 50’s. Although, an increased number of total players inside 50 was likely associated with a concomitant decrease in the probability of scoring, irrespective of a team numerical advantage. Teams were largely outnumbered when the ball was in their forward 50 but attained a numerical advantage when the ball was in the defensive 50.

Cooperative passing network features are associated with successful match outcomes in the Australian Football League

2021 ◽  
pp. 174795412110527
Author(s):  
Job Fransen ◽  
Rhys Tribolet ◽  
William Bradshaw Sheehan ◽  
Ignatius McBride ◽  
Andrew Roman Novak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Team Sports ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Network Characteristics ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Four Seasons ◽  
Successful Match ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
The Relationship

Collective behaviour is an important component of team performance in team sports. This study used a binomial generalised linear mixed effects regression model to investigate the relationship between cooperative passing network characteristics and match outcomes of professional Australian Football League competition games across four seasons between 2016 and 2019. It divided a sample of 1629 observations into a training and testing partition used to develop and assess the validity of the model used in this study, respectively. The results of this study reveal that a team's connectedness is associated with the probability of winning Australian Football League games (Akaike Information Criterion = 1637.3, residual df= 1297, deviance = 1625.3). When most players within a team are involved in the team's passing network bidirectionally (i.e. a well-connected network; odds ratio = 1.053; 95% confidence interval: 4.2–6.5%, p < 0.001), teams have a higher probability of winning. The centralisation of a team's passing network was not significantly related to match outcomes. The classification accuracy for the model associating network characteristics with match outcomes was 69%. Collectively, these findings suggest that Australian Football League-specific network features should be incorporated within existing performance analysis methods and can provide a useful, practical tool for coaches to measure collective performance during team practice.

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