Abstract:
This study examines the effect of leadership style on players’ satisfaction of Jimma Aba-Buna
and Jimma City football clubs. To achieve this objective, cross-sectional descriptive survey
method was used in order to collect data once from both Jimma Aba Buna and Jimma city
football club players (n = 2clubs x 25 players) through Multistage sampling technique. Revised
version Leadership Scale for Sport (RLSS) by Zhang, Jensen and Mann (1997) and Jowett and
Clark-Carter’s (2006) adoption of the 56-item Athlete Satisfaction Questionnaire (ASQ;
Riemer&Chelladurai, 1998) were used in order to collect data from the players. Percentage,
mean and standard deviation and linear regression were used to analyze the data. In general,
the finding of this study reveals that Players are on the appropriate age to play football,
players had amble playing in league football, and players were licensed with at least one,
players were more perceived positive feedback coaching behavior which the highest mean
score and followed by social support behavior, autocratic behavior coaching behavior, training
and instruction coaching behavior while democratic behavior were the least perceived
one.Personal treatment satisfaction was the most important subscale influencing athlete
satisfaction in the team followed by team performance satisfaction, individual performance
satisfaction while training & instructor satisfaction was the least factor determines the player’s
performance in the team. Almost all the subscale of the player’s satisfaction was found to be
statistically insignificant to correlate with the player’s satisfaction in the team. The study
reported all the subscale of the player’s satisfaction was found to be statistically insignificant
to correlate with the player’s satisfaction in the team. This research highlights that statistically
significant low negative relationship was observed between democratic behavior as well as
training and instruction and democratic behavior. The study reported that statistically
significant low positive relationship was registered between personal treatment satisfaction
and autocratic behavior and low negative relation between individual performance satisfaction
and democratic behavior.
