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Talent identification and risk management at AFL clubs : 'We'll only recruit public school boys in the future'

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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by Peter Kelly, Chris HickeyChris Hickey
This paper will report on a research project funded by the Australian Football League (AFL).The research mobilises Foucault's later work on the care of the Self to focus on the ways in which player identities are regulated; and the manner in which players conduct themselves in ways that can be characterised as professional - or not.

The paper explores the forms of risk management that Clubs use in the processes of talent identification that they engage in as a consequence of AFL rules. The paper discusses how psychological profiling is used to identify character traits prior to initial recruitment in the draft or trading processes - and reports on suggestions that risk management in this increasingly commerciaIised context may lead to recruitment practices that exclude certain types of persons. from
certain types of backgrounds.

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Event

Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (19th : 2005 : Canberra, A.C.T.)

Pagination

1 - 14

Publisher

ANZAM

Location

Canberra, A.C.T.

Place of publication

Canberra, A.C.T.

Start date

2005-12-07

End date

2005-12-10

ISBN-13

9781740882453

ISBN-10

1740882458

Language

eng

Notes

Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed; E Conference publication

Copyright notice

2005, ANZAM

Editor/Contributor(s)

D Davies, G Fisher, R Hughes

Title of proceedings

ANZAM 2005 : Engaging the multiple contexts of management : convergence and divergence of management theory and practice : proceedings of the 19th ANZAM conference

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