Sports Leadership Case Study

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An Executive Summary of Sports Leadership: The Multidimensional Theory

Sport leadership is an emerging area of research. Most of the leadership models from business management psychology field helped to shape some of the initial models that led on to popular sports leadership models such as the contingency theory (Fiedler, 1964), the discrepancy theory (Chelladurai, 1984), the path-goal theory (House, 1971), and the transformational leadership theory (Bass, 1990). After reading relevant research Chelladurai and Carron in 1978 conceptualised the multidimensional leadership model.
The multidimensional leadership has found popularity within sport psychology (Chelladurai, 2012). This is likely to be as it can be easily applied to a wide range of managers, athletes and clubs of a variety of sports.
Therefore the aim of this executive summary is to explain the fundamental components of the …show more content…

Through simple manipulation and alteration of the member and situational characteristics the leader can be seen as a transformational leader.

In order for sport psychologists to assess whether or not Chelladurai’s multidimensional model of leadership is an effective model a measurement instrument was utilised. The most popular measurement instrument for this is the leadership scale for sports (LSS). The LSS was first created by Chelladurai and Saleh in 1978 and modified in 1980. It measures 5 key parts of leadership: training and instruction, democratic behaviour, positive feedback, social support and autocratic behaviour.
The LSS has received psychometric backing and has been extensively tested (Chelladurai, 1993; Chelladurai & Riemer, 1998).
With the theory of Chelladurai’s multidimensional and the use of the LSS sports psychologists would be able to identify the areas in which managers or sport and exercise leaders are not being as effective as they could

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