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Effects of Leadership Styles on Coaches of Iran's National Teams Success and Athletes' Perception of Success | Abstract
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Effects of Leadership Styles on Coaches of Iran's National Teams Success and Athletes' Perception of Success

Author(s): Zinat Nikaien, Farideh Ashraf Ganjouie, Fereidoon Tondnevis, Kambiz Kamkari

Leadership concept is a relational process between leaders and followers in order that the leaders could influence on their followers, which is a common background in leadership definitions. Study and acquiring leadership for understanding efficiency and usefulness of organizations were important for decades. The research population was constituted of national teams' players who participated in national teams' camps for Asian competitions, and include 90 coaches and 473 athletes (men and women); so, sampling method was full calculated. Measurement instruments were three questionnaires of personal characteristics, MLQ Boss leadership style and Roberts and Balajio POSQ success perception. Results of the analyses showed that prediction of coaches' success was not possible by transformational and transactional leadership styles' elements and success perception of the athletes. There was no significant difference between leadership styles from view point of coaches and athletes. We could predict success perception of the athletes by leadership styles. There was a significant difference between gender of coaches and leadership styles of the coaches, and both spiritual effect and motivation in transformational leadership styles and management, based on active exceptions of transactional leadership styles' elements, were higher in men than women, and management based on passive exception in transactional leadership styles of women were higher than men. Athlete of individual fields considered more the spiritual effect that was one of the elements of transformational leadership styles. Higher spiritual effect and motivation in transformational leadership styles, there was increase on success perception of the athletes. Women were more self absorbed than men. Athletes of individual fields were more self absorbed than athletes of team fields.