Leadership in Relation to Sports

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Leadership in Relation to Sports

• By Richard Collier 938833
• Psychology 1023

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Leadership

• Burns defines leadership as the reciprocal
  process of mobilizing, by persons with certain
  motives and values, various economic, political,
  and other resources, in a context of competition
  and conflict, in order to realize goals
  independently or mutually held by both leaders
  and followers.
• Leaders help give their team focus and strength.
• Leadership is related to social influence,
  therefore one with social influence would make a
  good leader.

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Different Types of Leaders

• There are five main leadership types
  authoritative, political, evaluative,
  participative, and laissez-faire.
• Authoritative and political are leader centered
  styles, and evaluative, participative, and
  laissez-faire are group centered.
• Authoritative (telling) the leader identifies
  the problem, finds a solution, and impliments the
  solution. The leader may or may not choose to
  consider what the rest of the group has to say.
• Political (selling) same as authoritative,
  except the leader tries to persuade the group
  members into accepting the solution.

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Different Types of Leaders

• Evaluative (testing) the leader finds a
  tentative solution, then gets the reactions of
  the group before making the final solution.
• Participative (consulting) the leader lets the
  group in on the process from the start. All
  group members contribute to the finding of
  solutions, then the leader picks out the one they
  regard as the best.
• Laissez-faire (joining) the leader is just
  another member of the group, and agrees to carry
  out whatever solution the group comes up with.

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Goals

• The overall goal of this project is to find out
  what an ideal leader for a sports team is.
• To accomplish this finding out who is the more
  effective team leader, player or coach, will be
  key.
• What are the qualities that a successful team
  leader should have?

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Participants

• The participants will come from high school
  athletes on senior varsity teams.
• Eight teams will be surveyed.
• There will be around 100-140 participants,
  depending on the size of the teams.
• Four of the teams will be girls teams and four
  will be guys teams.
• The sports teams included will be basketball,
  rugby, soccer, and softball.

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Method

• Teams will be spread out over the testing room,
  so that they cannot see each others answers, or
  feel like their teammates are reading their
  answers.
• There will be a twenty minute time period for the
  participants to complete the survey.
• The participants will not be permitted to talk
  while the survey is being carried out.
• To ensure the participants, dont talk or look
  off each other sheets someone overseeing the
  survey will be present in the room for the
  duration of the survey.

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The Survey

• The survey is broken up into three sections, with
  each survey having two sub-sections.
• The three sections will be Experience with
  coaching, experience with player leadership, and
  leadership qualities.
• The two sub sections will be multiple choice, and
  written questions.
• Each multiple choice section will consist of
  twenty statements, which the participant will be
  asked to rate whether they strongly agree (1) or
  strongly disagree (5).
• The written portion will consist of three
  questions.

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The Questions

• Here are examples of questions found in the first
  part of each section
• For the following put whether you strongly agree
  or disagree
• - Sec. A After discipline from the coach, I
  work hard to change what I did wrong.
• - Sec. B My player leader will talk to me
  outside of team events.
• - Sec. C My player leader is comfortable
  telling me if I did something wrong in a game,

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The Questions

• The written questions will be relatively similar
  in the first two sections, with the final
  sections being more different.
• An example from the coaching section would be
  Have you ever had a negative experience with a
  coach? Please explain.
• An example from the player section would be
  Have you ever had a positive experience with a
  player leader? Please explain.
• An example from the qualities section would be
  What do think are some qualities a leader should
  have?
• These questions will help explain the way the
  participants answered the multiple choice
  questions.

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Materials

• A room that can sit 30 people.
• 20 desks
• Copies of the survey
• 20 writing utensils
• Chart
• Calculator