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Risk management, player welfare and privacy : player development managers and dilemmas for employee relations in Australian football league clubs

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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by Peter Kelly, Chris HickeyChris Hickey
This paper reports on one aspect of a research project that was funded by the Australian Football League (AFL) to explore the emergence and evolution of a ‘professional identity’ for AFL footballers. The research was informed by Foucault's later work on the care of the Self to focus on the ways in which player identities are governed by coaches, club officials, and the AFL Commission/Executive; and the manner in which players conduct themselves in ways that can be characterised as professional - or not. The paper explores the roles of Player Development Managers (PDMs) in emerging processes of risk and player management. These roles increasingly involve PDMs in risk management practices and processes that can be seen as intrusive in players’ lives. These risk management processes raise a number of concerns about player privacy and the rights of Clubs to know what their employees are up to away from the workplace.

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Event

Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Conference (20th : 2006 : Glenelg, S. A.)

Pagination

285 - 293

Publisher

University of South Australia

Location

Adelaide, S.A

Place of publication

Adelaide, S. A.

Start date

2006-02-01

End date

2006-02-03

ISBN-13

9780868035451

ISBN-10

0868035459

Language

eng

Notes

Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2006, AIRAANZ

Editor/Contributor(s)

B Pocock, C Provis, E Willis

Title of proceedings

21st century work : high road or low road : proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand

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