The leadership profiles of cadets who participate in sports activities at Turkish Military Academy

The concept of leadership that has attracted people?s attention for centuries is an important factor designed for attaining the objectives of people, organizations and the public. Today, the success of leaders is an essential element since they can manage to spark the success of the groups, institutions and organizations they lead. A successful leader can be best described by the idea of effective leader; and thus, leadership?s efficiency on attaining the objectives of people, organizations and the public is prominent for the future of human history. The analyses of required factors to be an effective leader is more than a scientific study, it is a significant field of research that concerns the public. This study has been conducted in order to evaluate the leadership attitudes of cadets who participate in sports activities at Turkish Military Academy. Leadership attitudes are as follows; Theory of Specialties, Theory of Action, Theory of Timing and Modern Leadership attitudes. Modern Leadership Attitudes is the fundamental topic of this thesis. According to Modern Leadership Attitudes, leaders are evaluated in three categories: let them do it, revolving and acting. This thesis, which studies the leadership profiles of the cadets who participate in sports activities at Turkish Military Academy, holds modern leadership attitudes as its fundamental ground while researching for the leadership measures of the cadets. It also seeks answers as to the question of whether some demographic data, primarily their athletic profile during their Academy years, can be used in explaining and understanding the differences in their leadership attitudes. For this purpose the data gathered from 383 Cadets of the Turkish Military Academy, has been evaluated via the SPSS 14,0 demo version. The evaluated set of results is presented at the end of the thesis. Key Words: Leader, leadership attitudes, transformational leader, Laıssez- Faire