The beneficial and detrimental effects

Running Head: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN SPORTS
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN SPORTS
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Practice based part...........................................................................................................................2
My leadership style......................................................................................................................2
My decision making abilities.......................................................................................................3
Issues in my decision making......................................................................................................4
Remedies to the problem and initiative.......................................................................................5
Academic based part........................................................................................................................5
Decision making in leadership.....................................................................................................5
Facets of the complaint style of decision making........................................................................6
Limitations in the complaint style of decision making................................................................7
Potential remedies to the issue.....................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Decision making is identified as one of the key aspects in leadership irrespective of its
genre in business or management. According to Raab et al. (2019) leaders are responsible to
facilitate effective decision making so that it will bring success to the organisational
development. However, in case of sports there are high risks and uncertainty that the leaders or
the captain are witnessed on the basis of the nature of the game. Therefore, decision making in
sports is somewhat more critical than decision making in business management (Konings &
Hettinga, 2018). There are plenty of styles and ways of decision making that are prevalent in
sports leadership with its distinctive characteristic and outcome (Araújo et al., 2019). In respect
to this, the report is trying to figure out the issues and remedies that I am facing as a rugby
captain in the field. There are both personal reflection and empirical evidences that the report is
going to analyse so that a link between the previous studies and the real life example can be
made properly.
Practice based part
My leadership style
I am performing as a captain in professional rugby team for 2 years onwards. There are
plenty of experience and learning that I went through in course of my captainship as a rugby
captain and the responsibility that I have to keep so that my team can perform well. I thrust on
the team performance rather than individual skills because it is a much needed characteristic of
rugby game. In response to this, I prefer transformational leadership over all the other leadership
qualities that are prevalent in sports. The reason behind choosing transformational leadership is

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to motivate the team members to a great extent so that it will facilitate high performance in the
field. Moreover, I presume that my leadership quality and skills also help me to retain the team
spirit by discussing the tactics and strategies before every match. As a matter of fact, I sense that
there are different expectations and visions that my team mates have which can guide me to take
proper decision in field and in locker room as well. Henceforth, I put great stress on the team
judgement before the start of each game so that it will deliver a good coordination and
understanding among the team members.
My decision making abilities
As far as my decision making abilities are concerned, I am more like a person who
believes in complaint style of decision making. There are certain factors that make me compelled
to opt for such kind of decision making style. I am very much fond of the statistics and figures
that I can get through performing effective leadership skills. It is important to note that my
decision making style is based on a number of detailed analysis of the game and come to a
logical conclusion that is supported my belief and decisions to a great deal. I presume that the
reason behind choosing the compliant style of decision making is favoured by my consciousness
and proactive nature to identify the risks and worst case scenarios. It compels me to read the
game very closely and finds out the blunders that we had made in the previous game. Moreover,
analysing the styles and strategies of the opponent team is also part of my leadership role to
understand so that I can come with a pragmatic and relevant decision which is better for the
team. Therefore, my decision making abilities and style are highly relevant in the context of
influencing the game and bring success for my team.