Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The main aim of this study was to develop a diversity management content model based on the \norganisational team sport intervention and to compile a process model to implement \norganisational team sport in an organisation in nine financial organisations in Gauteng, South \nAfrica. The diversity constraints relevant in this study were age, gender, race, religious beliefs, \nphysical abilities, ethnicity, generation gaps, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical \nabilities, education, income, political beliefs and income. The study was conducted among 63 \nsport participants and nine sport coordinators employed at nine financial organisations in \nGauteng, South Africa. \nThe data were collected by means of focus group interviews with sport participants and \nindividual interviews with sport coordinators. The results indicate that organisational team sport \ninterventions as a diversity management initiative do have benefits for the employees (i.e. the \nemployees learn more about and from one another, communicate openly, become friends, trust \nand respect one another, are able to work together in a team, have equal opportunities and \nthere is less stereotyping/discrimination) and for the organisation (i.e. productivity, the company \nis able to achieve its goals, employees are more cohesive and able to work together, there is \ncreativity, new ideas are generated and client service improves). The findings of this study \ncontribute valuable new knowledge to the literature on the diversity management content model \nbased on organisational team sport interventions because no studies have been conducted on \nan organisational team sport intervention model that can be utilised as a diversity model in \norganisations.
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2164858586