Investigating the Relationship between the Leadership Style and Productivity in the Central Organization of Sports and Youth Organization and Its Affiliated Organizations in Hamedan Province

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the leadership style aspects and the manpower productivity among the Sports and Youth Organization’s staff of Hamedan Province. In this research, all of the managers and staff of the Sports and Youth Organization’s employers of Hamedan Province are considered as the statistical population among which 29 of managers and 103 of managers and staff were selected as the statistical sample. For sample selection the random sampling was used. The research methodology is descriptive-survey. The instrument of the study was a researcher-made questionnaire which its first part composed of 16 questions relevant to the leadership style and was answered only by managers and the second part composed of 29 questions of five-choice-Likert scale for manpower productivity and answered by managers and staff. Data analysis was done using SPSS 19.00 software. For data description the descriptive statistics, frequency tables, percentages and bar diagrams, and for deductive statistics at end Spearman’s correlational coefficient and Kolmogorov-Smirnov’ test were used. Regarding the research results it was concluded that with the certainty of 95% there is a significant relationship between the leadership style and manpower productivity.