ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Expanded Integrated Board Performance model as a way to position the foci of sport board performance research published since 2009, as it relates to selection, development and evaluation. Director selection for nonprofit sport organisations is equally important and arguably more challenging than in the corporate/commercial domain. The importance of membership “voice” is reflected in the R. Hoye and G. Cuskelly study comparing the director selection, induction and evaluation practices of seven state sporting organisations in Australia to a list of recommended board practices. A distinction is drawn between structural criteria that pertains to all director selection processes within an organisation, the context-specific criteria that is developed for each director selection process. The Nomination committees has been described as the “primary institutional mechanism designed to strengthen director selection processes”. Role fit is driven by the desire to “ensure that appropriate knowledge and expertise is present within the board in order to deliver on strategic imperatives”.
