SPORTS GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGY: Report for [University Name]

This report delves into the intricacies of sports governance and strategy, examining critical aspects such as the conduct of AC board meetings, the roles and responsibilities of independent and non-executive directors, and the functions of the Nominations Committee. It highlights communication gaps in meetings, suggests improvements for decision-making processes, and discusses the purposes and operations of the Nominations Committee in relation to director appointments and adherence to Australian Sports Council (ASC) governance requirements. The report also addresses potential issues regarding the appointment of independent directors with legal experience and the application of gender equity principles. Furthermore, it outlines the essential components of a Director Induction pack, including policies, procedures, and ethical considerations, emphasizing the need for legal expertise and ethical awareness among directors. The analysis is supported by references to relevant literature on sports governance and management.

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Sports Governance and Strategy
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Name of the university
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Question 1
The issue or concern that can be noticed about the conduct of the AC board meetings of
the fact the independent Directors and the non-Executive Directors are conferring over telephone
as this has been regarded as a teleconference (Ma et al. 2013). There is a communication gap and
lack of understanding has been noticed in this segment as the Directors are intending to give their
opinions and not being able to come to a particular decision.
It can be recommended that these kinds of official meetings could be arranged fac-to-face
as this would increase the communication skills between them. The fact that the Directors are not
coming to one point of decision and continuously trying to prove their own points can harm the
entire integrity of the meeting (Ma et al. 2013). Bobby should try to address the other officials to
come to a decision to improve the results in Rio Olympics 2016 knocking at the door.
Question 2
There have been many purposes to construct the Nominations Committee. This
committee has to look after the operations of the Directors and the ways they will look after the
needs for the athletes and maintain the governance strategies made by the Australian Sports
Council (Hargreaves 2014). This has to be in line with utilizing the skills of the Directors and
how they maintain their responsibilities. The ASC governance requirements have to be met by
the committee to ensure that the athletes are well trained and the legal barriers are overcome in
the entire process.
No such conflicts have been noticed been recorded in the meeting as Robin had resigned
from his role and Fatima explained that the ASC governance requirements were being
maintained properly by them. An issue could be noted that the Terms and Reference could not be

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recalled by any of the board members so=ince the website was down and if the Nominations
Committee had the permission to recruit in that position (Hargreaves 2014).
It could be recommended for the joint AC and the Australia Nominations Committee that
they should be working flawlessly together to make the best outcome happen in every context.
The fundraising for the u23 World Cup Polo tournament has to be done as well (Hargreaves
2014).
Question 3
An independent Director with legal experience has to be appointed in the organization
that will help to run the organization smoothly and reduce its costs as well (Rynne and Rossi
2012). The problem may arise in relation to the ASC’s gender equity principle that almost 40%
members of the board should be women. The non-executive Directors used to recommend their
favorite persons for that post and this could give rise to a conflict.
Question 4
Fatima had said that she had been working on the Director Induction pack. Some
important things could be included in this pack such as the policies, procedures he has to follow
and the ethics that they have to maintain in this domain (Parry 2012). The new Director must be
able to solve the legal problems since they wanted to recruit someone with an exclusive
knowledge of the legal matters. The ethical issues would have to be mentioned to the Directors
as well.

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References
Hargreaves, J., 2014. Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies). Routledge.
Ma, L., Xu, T., Sternberg, G., Balasubramanian, A. and Zeira, A., 2013, May. Model-based QoE
prediction to enable better user experience for video teleconferencing. In Acoustics, Speech and
Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 2815-2819). IEEE.
Parry, J., 2012. The Youth Olympic Games–Some Ethical Issues. Sport, ethics and
philosophy, 6(2), pp.138-154.
Rynne, S. and Rossi, T., 2012. The impact of Indigenous Community sports programs: The case
of surfing. Australian Sports Commission.