Leadership style and coaching behaviour in relation with athlete’s performance of oromia special zone athletics clubs

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the various factors which have an impact on the leadership style and coaching behaviours in relation with Oromia special zone athlete performance. This study was conductedin Oromia special zone athletics clubs, (Burayu, Sebeta, Lagatafo, Sululta and Holeta) athletes (n=20) from each club. Totally, there were (n=20 athletes*5 clubs) which is (N=200 athletes). The data gathered by using questionnaire, leadership, coaching behaviours and athlete performance were analyzed using the Scale.Descriptive data was analyzed by mean and standard deviation, percentage, table, graph and pie charts to show characteristics of the study subject. Person correlation was conducted on quantitative data on the relationships between athletes performance and independent variables which are physical training and planning, competition strategy, mental preparation, democratic, situational consideration, and autocratic were computed.Results showed that there is no significant relationship between athletes performance with physical training and planning coaches behavior shows insignificant relationship (r = 0.015), mental preparation coaches behavior shows insignificant relationship(r = 0.018), and competition strategy coaches behavior shows insignificant relationship (r = 0.031). This can shows that the coaches coaching behavior can not affect the performance of the athletes.In this study Pearson product correlation of athletic performance between democratic, situational consideration and autocratic leadership style also shows insignificant relationship in (r = 0.115, r = 0.170 and r = 0.064) respectively. Based on the present result recommended that the coach’s leadership style can not affect the performance of the athletes. The present result of this study the athletes of athletics clubs were exercising physical training and planning, competition strategies and mental preparation. So that they should use more based on the objective of their clubs, situation they phase and improvement of their performance.