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

Kelly, Peter and Hickey, Christopher 2005, Talent identification and risk management at AFL clubs : 'We'll only recruit public school boys in the future', in ANZAM 2005 : Engaging the multiple contexts of management : convergence and divergence of management theory and practice : proceedings of the 19th ANZAM conference, ANZAM, Canberra, A.C.T., pp. 1-14.

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Title Talent identification and risk management at AFL clubs : 'We'll only recruit public school boys in the future'
Author(s) Kelly, Peter
Hickey, Christopher
Conference name Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (19th : 2005 : Canberra, A.C.T.)
Conference location Canberra, A.C.T.
Conference dates 7- 10 December 2005
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
Editor(s) Davies, Doug
Fisher, Greg
Hughes, Raechel
Publication date 2005
Conference series Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
Start page 1
End page 14
Publisher ANZAM
Place of publication Canberra, A.C.T.
Keyword(s) Australian Football League
professionalisation
Foucault
care of the self
talent Identification
risk management
Summary 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.
Notes Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.
ISBN 1740882458
9781740882453
Language eng
Field of Research 160805 Social Change
Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
ERA Research output type E Conference publication
Copyright notice ©2005, ANZAM
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30009715

Document type: Conference Paper
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