Investigation of leadership styles of sports administrators in Elazig city

Abstract:The aim of the study that determination the level of leadership styles of sport managers who are in sports administration of Elazığ province and determine the differences of leadership styles of sport managers and propose solution if there is difference. Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, and Managers at sports clubs of Turkey generate the population of study. Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports in Elazığ, Faculty of Sport Sciences of Fırat University, and Managers at sports clubs in Elazığ generate the samples of study. 207 people, including Faculty of Sport Sciences ( 23 academic staffs and 12 administrative staffs), Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences ( 40 academic staffs and 33 trainers), 99 trainers who work at the sports clubs, generate the sample of study. In the first part of survey, the questions for identifying of demographic information of participant are included, in the second part of survey; multi-factor leadership scale prepared by Bernard BASS in 1985 and translated into Turkish by Akdoğan in 2002 is used for identifying leadership styles of sport managers. After obtaining study data, SPSS 22.0 package program is used for analyzing data. Descriptive statistics, Independent Sample t Test, One-way Variance Statistics are used as a statistical way. While, according to the administrative stuff Dean of Faculty of Sports Sciences shows the type of leadership which is depending on award, according to the academic staff Dean shows the type of leadership which is offering independence. While according to the civil servants Manager of Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports shows transformational, subscriber and offering independence leadership types, according to the trainers, Manager shows charismatic leadership type. When the opinions of trainers, who works in sports clubs, investigated it is seen that Club Managers shows transformational, subscriber and offering independence leadership types.