Nebojsa Maksimovic¹, Radenko Matic¹, Zoran Milosevic¹

¹Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Novi Sad

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS OF EXECUTIVES ON DIFFERENT LEVEL OF MANAGEMENT IN FOOTBALL

LIDERSKE KARAKTERISTIKE RUKOVODILACA RAZLIČITIH NIVOA MENADŽMENTA U FUDBALU

Sport Mont 2011, IX(31-32-33), 598-604

Abstract

Leadership as a component of the management executive function has become higly evaluated ability in different organizations, including sports organizations. Achieving competitive success in the sport depends on leadership skill of managers, what leadership set up in the focus of scientific attention. The aim of this study was to analyzes the leadership characteristics of managers in sports clubs in football at different levels of management. The sample consisted of 116 managers in football, and the lowest 74 and 42 from top-level management. The obtained results using Man-Whitney test, showed that top-level executives management of football clubs, often tend to achieve an agreement with a group about that what kind of rewards followers will have, if the job is well done. On the other hand, lower-level of management executives prove that leaders on this level of executive, more help followers to progress, to fully realize their potential.

Keywords

operational and top management, transformational and transactional leadership, football

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