Sport Officiating: Recruitment, Development, and Retention

by Nick Wattie, Lori Livingston, Ian Cunningham, et al.

Sport officials are tasked with maintaining order and adjudicating sport contests. Given their multifaceted role in enforcing rules, standardizing competitions, and keeping sport safe for all participants, they are a requisite part of the sport workforce.

With ongoing reports of annual attrition rates in officiating in excess of 20-35% for various sports around the world, there is more than ample evidence that officiating dropout is a persistent,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138610577
• ISBN13: 9781138610576
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages