McLean Scott, Rath David, Lethlean Simon, Hornsby Matt, Gallagher James, Anderson Dean, Salmon Paul M
Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia.
St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda, VIC, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2021 Jan 20;11:588959. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588959. eCollection 2020.
The suspension of major sporting competitions due to the global COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial negative impact on the sporting industry. As such, a successful and sustainable return to sport will require extensive modifications to the current operations of sporting organizations. In this article we argue that methods from the realm of sociotechnical systems (STS) theory are highly suited for this purpose. The aim of the study was to use such methods to develop a model of an Australian Football League (AFL) club's football department. The intention was to identify potential modifications to the club's operations to support a return to competition following the COVID-19 crisis. Subject Matter Experts from an AFL club participated in three online workshops to develop Work Domain Analysis and Social Organization and Cooperation Analysis models. The results demonstrated the inherent complexity of an AFL football department via numerous interacting values, functions and processes influencing the goals of the system. Conflicts within the system were captured via the modeling and included pursing goals that may not fully reflect the state of the system, a lack of formal assessment of core values, overlapping functions and objects, and an overemphasis on specialized roles. The current analysis has highlighted potential areas for modification in the football department, and sports performance departments in general.
由于全球新冠疫情大流行导致重大体育赛事暂停，这对体育产业产生了巨大的负面影响。因此，要成功且可持续地恢复体育赛事，就需要对体育组织的当前运营进行广泛调整。在本文中，我们认为社会技术系统（STS）理论领域的方法非常适合这一目的。该研究的目的是运用此类方法构建一个澳大利亚足球联赛（AFL）俱乐部足球部门的模型。其意图是确定对该俱乐部运营的潜在调整，以支持在新冠疫情危机后恢复比赛。来自一个AFL俱乐部的主题专家参加了三次在线研讨会，以构建工作领域分析以及社会组织与合作分析模型。结果通过众多相互作用的价值观、功能和流程展示了AFL足球部门的内在复杂性，这些因素影响着系统的目标。通过建模捕捉到了系统内的冲突，包括追求可能无法充分反映系统状态的目标、对核心价值观缺乏正式评估、功能和对象重叠以及过度强调专业角色。当前的分析突出了足球部门以及一般体育表现部门中潜在的调整领域。
