The purpose of this study was to analyze and examine the relationship between leadership behavior and organizational culture, organizational commitment in sports team More specifically, this study was to investigate the influence of leadership behavio...
The purpose of this study was to analyze and examine the relationship between leadership behavior and organizational culture, organizational commitment in sports team More specifically, this study was to investigate the influence of leadership behavior on rational culture, developmental culture, consensual culture, and hierarchical culture of organizational culture, and loyalty, voluntary factors, and value-acceptance of organizational commitment. Subjects of this study were sampled 322 male athletes of football, volleyball, basketball, and baseball teams belong to universities in Seoul, Incheon, and Kyungki-do using the stratified cluster random sampling method. The data collected questionnaire designed for this study were consisted of responses to items constructed to represent each variable. The methods of statistics used to analyze the collected data were correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. Based on the procedures and results of the study, the following conclusions were warranted : First, leadership behavior has effect on organizational culture. That is to say, training and instructing behavior increases the degree of rational culture, developmental culture, and consensual culture. Democratic behavior increases the degree of developmental culture, and social support behavior increases the degree of consensual culture. Autocratic behavior increases the degree of hierarchical culture but decreases the degree of consensual culture. Second, leadership behavior has effect on organizational commitment. That is to say, training and instructing behavior increases the degree of loyalty, voluntary factors, and value-acceptance and social support behavior increases the degree of voluntary factors and value-acceptance. Also positive feedback behavior increases the degree of loyalty and value-acceptance.