Leadership characteristics of youth and sport city managers and its role on quality performance, entrepreneurship and excellence from the perspective of the cities administrators

Abstract

This Study aims at identifying the role that leadership characteristics play on performance quality, entrepreneurship and excellence from the perspective of the youth and sport cities administrators, and it also suggests a model of leadership characteristics that must be available in youth and sports cities managers. The researcher used descriptive approach, the sample was randomly selected, the sample was (61), (32) sub-managers and (29) managers. The questionnaire was used as a tool to collect the data, whereby especially questionnaire is built that surveys six fields: The administrative field, the leadership field, the creativity entrepreneurship and excellence field, the investment field, the relations field and the integrity and transparency field. The legalization of the questionnaire in terms of validity and reliability have been applied. Data analyzed by using SPSS software. The findings showed that the most important administrative features that must be provided is integrity and transparency characteristics and then administrative characteristics, and these findings also show a correlation between leadership characteristics and performance quality, entrepreneurship and Excellency. Furthermore, there are also characteristics that contribute to predict the quality of performance entrepreneurship and excellence. This study was also able to build a model for city managers characteristics and it recommended empowering administrative leaders and taking into account the method of selecting city managers according to the characteristics that achieve quality and excellence.