Groups dynamics of sport performance

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Groups dynamics of sport performance

• Leadership

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Candidates should be able to

• Identify the characteristics of leaders including
  autocratic / task oriented, democratic / social
  oriented, laissez faire.
• Understand the importance of effective leadership
• Describe the difference between emergent and
  prescribed leaders
• Understand trait, social learning and
  interactionist perspectives on leadership
• Explain the theories of leadership
• Chelladurais multi dimensional model
• Fiedlers contingency theory

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How do these leaders operate?

• Identify their characteristics
• What makes them different?
• How did they get their role as leader?

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Born or Made

• Do you think leaders are born or made?
• Are people natural Leaders or do they Learn the
  skills of leadership?
• Explain your answer using examples from sport
  wherever possible.
• The following theories have been discussed when
  we studied Personality. They can also apply to
  Leadership find out how!!
• Trait approach
• Social Learning
• Interactionist

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Theories of leadership

• nature v nuture
• Are leaders born or do they develop through the
  process of socialization
• 2 contrasting theories Carlyle social
  learning theory

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Great man theory Carlyle

• Leaders inherit specific personality traits
• These include intelligence, self-confidence,
  assertion, good looks and a dominating
  personality
• This theory is only applied to men
• This is a theory irrespective of any situation
• This trait theory has little credence
  (acceptability)
• Other factors are viewed as more relevant e.g.
  how the leader emerged, the situation and nature
  of the group.

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Social learning theory

• All behaviour patterns are learnt due to social
  influences
• We copy behaviour of role models or significant
  others
• It is vicarious experience
• Criticism is that no allowance is made for trait
  approach and natural personality characteristics

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Emergent and Prescribed leaders

• Emergent
• Come from within the group
• Rise up as the right leader
• Prescribed
• Brought into the organisation from elsewhere
• Externally Appointed to lead

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Chelladurai Multi dimensional model of sports
leadership
Characteristics of
Type of behaviour
Effective leadership takes place if the leaders
behaviour is congruent with all factors
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Fiedler Contingency theory
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Questions

• Answer tasks one and two in the book p147 152
• Answer the revision questions on p152.