Document Type : Research Article (Quantitative)

Authors

1 Sports Management Department, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Sports Management Department, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/ijes.2021.700004

Abstract

Purpose: Leadership styles play an important role in the efficiency, performance and effectiveness of the organization. Therefore, the purpose of this research was determining the leadership style of sports managers in the education system based on the contingent factors of physical education teachers.
Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was correlation. The research population was the physical education teachers of the country in the 2018-19 academic years. The sample size based on the Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated to be 384 people, who this number were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tools were leadership style questionnaire (Likert, 1961), researcher-made questionnaire of physical education teachers' contingency factors (with two dimensions of intra-organizational contingency factors and individual contingency factors), personality characteristics questionnaire (Costa and McCrae, 1992) as personality contingency factors and cultural variables questionnaire (Hofstede, 1994) as cultural-social contingency factors. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient multiple regression methods with enter model in SPSS software.
Findings: The findings showed that only the contingent factors of avoiding uncertainty and patriarchy had the ability to predict the authoritative leadership style, only the contingent factors of extroversion, agreeableness, avoiding uncertainty and power distance had the ability to predict the benevolent leadership style, only the contingent factors of neuroticism, agreeableness, avoiding uncertainty and patriarchy had the ability to predict the consultative leadership style and only the contingent factors of agreeableness, willingness/motivation of work, capability/ability and work team had the ability to predict the participative leadership style (P<0.05) and other contingent factors did not have a significant role in predicting any of the leadership styles (P>0.05).
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the effective role of some contingent factors in predicting authoritative, benevolent, consultative and participative leadership styles, and experts can change leadership styles by adjusting these factors.
 
 

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