Prohibited Use of Drugs
Sportsmanship
Inclusivity / Diversity
The most common psychology-based principles for ethical decision-making involve such elements as
From Psychology: Ethical Issues in Sport
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Also, there are 4 dilemmas:
How to solve these ethical dilemmas:
2. Think about outcomes
3. Keep the group committed to the decision
From How to Solve Ethical Decisions in a Way That Work For Everyone
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Integrity in sport needs to grow from the grassroots level 9 May, 2018
Global and national attempts to improve governance and safeguard sport from corruption need to have community sport reach if they are to be effective.
Why is global sport business booming and why does this come with the increasing frequency and growing size of integrity scandals of bribery, corruption and cheating?
Having already courted considerable controversy in a relatively short career, tennis player Nick Kyrgios last week withdrew from probable selection for the Rio Olympics.
The article explains why ball tampering is outside the regulations of cricket and is regarded as cheating.
Sport is facing a critical moment. As we head into a big sporting summer, unanswered questions cast a large shadow over many high-profile athletes and countries.
Sport offers us a tumultuous time of ethical highs and lows January 24, 2017
With thanks to Brennan Library, Xavier College in Victoria for these links.
From: Dr Paul Oliver: Play By the Rules
Big time college sport Presents a speech by a Professor Emeritus of the Colorado State University given before the 1997 meeting of the Kansas Sociological Society at the Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas dealing with the issue of big-time college sports programs in the United States. By: Eitzen, D. Stanley; Vital Speeches of the Day, 12/01/97, Vol. 64 Issue 4, p. 122,
The Elements of Fair Play (From Fair Play International)
Fair competition
Respect
Friendship
Team spirit
Equality
Sport without doping
Respect for written and unwritten rules:
Using one selected ethical dilemma devise, evaluate and justify your proposed course
of action (ethics strategy) by appraising it's potential effectiveness in optimising positive
engagement and integrity in a selected sport from your Co-curricular Sport program.
To complete this task, you must include:
● Introduction - define the ethical dilemma and it's relevance to your selected Cocurricular
Sport program to frame the investigation
● Discussion - use the ethical decision-making framework to:
– analyse and synthesise primary data and secondary data relating to your Cocurricular
Sport program to ascertain the most significant relationships
between the
■ ethical dilemma
■ influence of local and national stakeholders on the ethics and values
demonstrated in the chosen Co-curricular Sport
■ tensions that exist in relation to integrity and fair play
■ strategies that have been used in response to similar ethical dilemmas
– analyse and synthesise primary data and secondary data to devise a course
of action (ethics strategy) in response to the identified ethical dilemma
– evaluate the effectiveness of the course of action (ethics strategy) to optimise
integrity and positive engagement in your Co-curricular Sport by appraising
the potential outcome, implications and limitations
– justify the development of the course of action (ethics strategy) using
evidence from primary data and secondary data
● Conclusion
● Reference list - acknowledge all sources sited in this investigation
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The following free ebook articles were kindly made available by courtesy of Gale publishers during the school closure period 2020 from their ebook Philosophy: Sports by R. Scott Kretchmar, Macmillan Reference, USA, ISBN 9780028663371
The Ethics of Performance Enhancement
The Ethics of Sportsmanship
Athletes as Role Models - Sports as Social Laboratories
Seb Coe: The fight against doping is a war of attrition — but we can win it
Evening Standard, 12 September, 2017
As testing improves, athletes and national federations also have a role to play in keeping sport clean.
Corruption in sport is a multibillion dollar industry that demeans the people who choose to stay clean and play fair.
From his vantage point of CEO of the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS), Michael Hershmann contemplates the role of sport from refugee camps to the Olympic games. He advocates getting back to the spirit of sport by teaching children fair-play and integrity at grass roots level.
This website states that norms in sports ethics include these elements:
These norms can push against ethical behaviour.
From Berkeley Centre: Norms in Sport - Athletes and Human Dignity
In its simplest form, Ethics is the study of what makes a particular action in a particular situation the right thing to do (Physiopedia). Ethical decision-making involves the following:
Values - These are the things we believe are important in the way we live or work eg Honesty, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Loyalty.
Principles - Fundamental truths that help us work out what's right and wrong - things you've learned throughout your life.
Purpose - What is your purpose in becoming involved in sport? Why did you get involved? Fun / Social involvement / Health / Building character and self-esteem / Glory / Money? Understanding your purpose helps you understand behaviours and choices people make within their ethical decisions.
Morals - Things you're taught (by religion / parents / wider community beliefs) eg not cheating, respecting others, 'doing unto others as you would have them do unto you' etc. Morals are what guide you in the right thing to do.
Sport Integrity Australia
Australian Institute of Sport
Health.gov
Clearninghouse for Sport (Australia)
Play by the Rules
Fair Play International
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University (USA)
This website has articles related to ethics in sports. Here are a few:
Play by the Rules (Australia)
The Ethics Centre (Australia)
An Australian non-profit organisation that focuses on ethics and everyday life. There are a number of articles and videos related to ethics and sport
8 December, 2013
Against a backdrop of fresh match-fixing allegations in New Zealand cricket, ongoing rumblings over the Essendon supplements scandal and more footballers misbehaving outside nightclubs, I couldn't help notice an unfamiliar voice in the world of sports commentary - the Pope.
Competition is not unethical. It is reasonable that winners be rewarded, even if their victories have an element of chance; this is the essence of a game, and games are fundamental to humanity.
But the allure of winning can drive some competitors to unethical behaviour.
By D A McDonell, 8 Oct 2017
Healthy competition is a means of cultivating personal honour, virtue and character. That the goal in sportsmanship is not simply to win, but to pursue victory with honour by giving one’s best effort.
1 April 2018
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Sports integrity: Helping you know and manage the risks The Research Synopsis on Safe, Fair and Inclusive Sport was developed by Dr Paul Oliver for the 2019 Theory of Change work with Play by the Rules. In contains a summary of research around safe, fair and inclusive sport with full references.
Fair play and integrity in sport Australians love playing and watching their sport. In our society, elite sportspeople are viewed as role models, however, an increasing incidence of sporting scandals is compromising sporting values and the spirit of competition, spurred on by commercial pressures to win at all costs. How should we prepare young Australians to make well-informed decisions in regard to enjoying and playing sport in a world seemingly rife with corruption, gambling, political power plays and poor sportsmanship? This book highlights the principles of fairness and integrity in sport and investigates the nature and extent of corruption and cheating in Australian and international sports. The book also tackles a number of concerns in relation to abuse and discrimination. How can elite athletes, players and sporting organisations play by the rules, and ensure we all have a sporting chance?
Practical Ethics in Sport Management - This is an expensive ebook, so please have a look! Use your BBC student number to access.
Leaders and managers throughout the sporting world face many ethical challenges on a daily basis. Should an athletic director chastise an unruly but influential supporter? What factors should affect an athlete's eligibility? Is competitiveness acceptable in youth sports? This text shows aspiring sports management professionals how to identify the moral issues in sports and develop principle-centered leadership practices to lead with justice, honesty, and beneficence. Among the issues addressed are the conflict between sportsmanship and gamesmanship, violence in sports, racial and gender equity, performance-enhancing drugs, academics, and commercialization. Throughout, specific examples from real-world sports situations and reflective questions encourage students to think critically.
Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals
Publication Date: 2019
This is a also an expensive ebook, so please use! Needs your BBC student number for access. Note that the licensing only allows 3 users at the one time, so please wait if you can't get in.
Provides students with the necessary tools to make ethical decisions in the sports management field. It presents several ethical models that the sports management professional can use as a guide to making ethical decisions. The text contains numerous case studies which allow students to apply the ethical decision-making process to a sports-related ethical dispute.
Ethics in sport - Sport & Society pp. 52-56
Paradise of sport - Sporting values in a professional age (p.202-204)
Note that you need the following in your Report:
Title Page (not part of main report, so not numbered)
Table of Contents (not part of main report, so not numbered)
Note that the 'how to' guide below was originally for Year 8s but the principle remains the same for any report. Before you begin, add 'Introduction', 'Conclusion' and 'List of References' on separate pages of your report.
