Investigate of the sport center managers’ leadership styles and the employee performance

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between employee performance and leadership styles of managers who work actively in sports centers. The study included 150 volunteers (male: 66, female: 84) that working in 46 different sports centers in Istanbul. MFL Scale which was prepared as five-point likert scale by Bass-Avolio and individual work performance was developed by Linda Koopmans, was used as a data collection tools. As a result of the reliability analysis of the scale, Cronbach's Alpha value is ,900 in transformational leadership variable; Cronbach's Alpha value is ,698 in the transactional leadership variable; Cronbach's Alpha value is ,725 in Laisses-Faire type leadership variable; Cronbach's Alpha value is ,879 in task performance variable; Cronbach's Alpha value is ,879 in contextual performance; Cronbach's Alpha value is .879 in contextual performance. In the study, non-parametric Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U tests were used because the data that belongs of the variables did not show normal distribution. Correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship and regression analysis was used to investigate the effect. Leadership style dimensions and employee performance were examined within the framework of variables that are age, gender, educational status, marital status, total working time and total working time in sports centers. There were differences in terms of conditional rewards in marital status variable, exceptional management (exceptional) laissez faire type leadership in the total working time variable, exceptional management (passive) in working time variable in sports center.