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- 2018
LEADERSHIP STYLES OF SPORT MANAGERS IN TURKISH SPORT ORGANIZATIONSKeywords: Liderlik, liderlik stilleri, spor y?neticisi, spor y?neticilerinin lider stilleri Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine the leadership styles of sport managers within national sport organization. For this purpose,the dominant leadership styles of the selected sports managers were determined. The sample of the research was composed of the 219 sport managers who work at Turkey’s Ministry of Youth and Sport, Governmental Directorate General of Youth and Sport, sport federations and the provincial directorate of youth services and sport by 2013. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) scale was used as data collection tool. Leadership styles that sports managers dominate according to their own assessments were determined by arithmetic mean and standard deviation values. The Mann-Whitney U test was used in the two groups to determine whether these results varied according to their personal characteristics. The Kruskal Wallis variance analysis statistical method was utilized for multiple group comparisons, and the Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine the significance of the difference. Significant level was based on .05 for this research. According to the results, it was stated that top-level sport managers in the sports organizations were predominantly exhibiting transformational leadership style
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