Nichols, G., Grix, J., Ferguson, G. et al. (1 more author) (2016) How sport governance impacted on Olympic legacy: a study of unintended consequences and the ‘Sport Makers’ volunteering programme. Managing Sport and Leisure, 21 (2). pp. 61-74. ISSN 2375-0472
Abstract
This paper focuses on Sport England’s Sport Makers programme – which aimed to generate new sports volunteers as part of a 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games legacy – as an illustration of the unintended consequences of a ‘top-down’, managerialist governance system. Interviews with county sport partnerships (CSPs), programme partners and workshop facilitators show that performance indicators imposed by Sport England distorted the programme: CSPs were obliged to meet targets – the process forcing a focus on ‘soft’ targets and incentivising double counting with existing programmes – instead of using their autonomy to promote volunteering most effectively. The paper contributes to the critique of new managerialism of public services by showing how this style of management proved counterproductive to achieving the programme aims, and failed to deliver sport policy nearer to the end-user and with relative autonomy from the state, which appears, paradoxically, to be more in command than in the era of ‘top-down’ government.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Managing Sport and Leisure. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | 2012 Olympic Games; volunteer; legacy; Sport Makers; managerialism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2016 14:13 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2017 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2016.1181984 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/23750472.2016.1181984 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105559 |