International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 2017, Vol. 7, No. 3 ISSN: 2222-6990 254 www.hrmars.com Labour Process of Football Referees In Professional leagues: The Example of Sakarya Province Associate Professor Cemal İYEM 1 Dilek ÇELEBİ TEMKİNER 2 , Gökhan ÇAKMAK 3 Halil İbrahim GENÇ 4 DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i3/2731 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i3/2731 ABSTRACT: In the world, the beginning of the football refereeing, was correlated with the beginning and spread of football. With football becoming such a colossal industry, footballers who play this game, have been turned into leisure time employees. Particularly, the labour process of footballers have begun at this point where football has turned into a profession. The profession of football refereeing has come into prominence as the decision-making authority about conflict in football field, while the footballer are playing football. Just as the effort footballers perform, referees also perform in order to manage the football match and make the right decisions. However, when it is investigated, it is observed that there are very few scientific research done. Consequently, referees to be studied in a scientific research is quite important in order to overcome the lack of information on this subject. In the study semi-structured interview of qualitative research was used. Keywords: Football Refereeing, Labour Process, Football Industry INTRODUCTION Sport, is an activity that draws the attention of mankind and stays intriguing in every period of time. At first, it was an activity that was a way to distract from work; however, with the increase of spare time and with sports expanding in economics, it started to become an occupation (Talimciler, 2005). Nowadays, when sports are mentioned, the first one that comes to mind is football. The world is going through changes and transformations that have never been before. Globalisation seems to be the engine behind these rapid transformations (Doğru, 2008). In the period that we live in; sports have become a subject of consumption, rather than stay as a 1 Sakarya University School of Business Dep. of HR Management, ciyem@sakarya.edu.tr 2 Sakarya University School of Business Dep. of HR Management, Masters (with thesis) Candidate 3 Sakarya University Department of Sport Management, Masters (with thesis) Candidate 4 Sakarya University PE and Sports Teaching Department, PhD Candidate