Measuring Leadership Styles And Success Of College Basketball Coaches

Download or read book Measuring Leadership Styles and Success of College Basketball Coaches written by John Pizzi (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The study was designed to determine the relationship between coaching leadership style and won/loss percentage. Gender differences in coaching leadership styles, and the relationship between won/loss percentage and the discrepancy scores between the self-report of leadership behavior by the coaches (n= 51) and the report for the coaches by the Director of Athletics (n= 51), were also examined. The Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS; Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980), which measures leadership styles across five dimensions, was used to determine and measure the self-reported leadership styles of coaches. Won/loss percentage and overall number of years as a head coach did not correlate to coaching leadership behaviors of male and female Division III college basketball coaches within the New England region. A significant (p