رابطه بين سبك هاي رهبري و بهره وري مديران سازمان هاي ورزشي

The Relationship Between Leadership Style and Productivity in Managers of Sport Organizations

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between leadership style (people- oriented vs. task oriented) and self-report productivity among managers of sport organizations of Iran. 50 managers of eastern Azerbaijan physical education offices (age mean 36.5±8.1 years; managerial experiences mean 11.92±8.6 years; 87% male) completed the Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire (20), Self-Assessment Organizational Productivity Questionnaire, (1) and Individual Characteristics Questionnaire, voluntarily. Eventually, the results showed that there is no significant relationship between leadership styles (people-oriented and task-oriented attitudes) and self-reported productivity in selected population. However, productivity scores were higher in mediate level of both attitudes of leadership style profiles. In other words, leaders with highest people-oriented or task-oriented scores didnʹt get highest productivity scores. Furthermore, we examined the relationship between two independent variables (people-oriented & task-oriented) with productivity, that a weak and negative relationship was observed between them (r=-0.223, P=0.012). According to the results, it can be concluded that using both profiles of leadership simultaneously will reduce managerʹs productivity in sport organizations of Azerbaijan. According to the low rate of relationship, we canʹt emphasis on this conclusion and it seems that cultural and environmental conditions had affected the results of this study. As a matter of fact, doing further researches in this case with different samples is necessary.