The main aim of this study was to develop a diversity management content model based on the
organisational team sport intervention and to compile a process model to implement
organisational team sport in an organisation in nine financial organisations in Gauteng, South
Africa. The diversity constraints relevant in this study were age, gender, race, religious beliefs,
physical abilities, ethnicity, generation gaps, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical
abilities, education, income, political beliefs and income. The study was conducted among 63
sport participants and nine sport coordinators employed at nine financial organisations in
Gauteng, South Africa.
The data were collected by means of focus group interviews with sport participants and
individual interviews with sport coordinators. The results indicate that organisational team sport
interventions as a diversity management initiative do have benefits for the employees (i.e. the
employees learn more about and from one another, communicate openly, become friends, trust
and respect one another, are able to work together in a team, have equal opportunities and
there is less stereotyping/discrimination) and for the organisation (i.e. productivity, the company
is able to achieve its goals, employees are more cohesive and able to work together, there is
creativity, new ideas are generated and client service improves). The findings of this study
contribute valuable new knowledge to the literature on the diversity management content model
based on organisational team sport interventions because no studies have been conducted on
an organisational team sport intervention model that can be utilised as a diversity model in
organisations. / Industrial & Organisational Psychology / D. Com.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:umkn-dsp01.int.unisa.ac.za:10500/8589 |
| Date | 01 February 2013 |
| Creators | Joubert, Yvonne T. |
| Contributors | De Beer, J. J. (Johannes Jacobus), 1947- |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (xxiv, 398 p.) |
| Rights | University of South Africa |
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