Leadership and It’s Styles in Team and Individual Sport Players

Abstract

Leadership is not an innate ability that a person is born with, but rather it is learned. Even though at some point everyone has a leadership quality in them, each individual’s leadership varies. In this study leadership and its style on both team and individual sport players were compared. For the present study, a sample of 70 was selected which was segregated into 35 team players and 35 individual players. The results of the study showed that there is a significant difference in leadership of team and individual sport players. It was observed that there is a significant difference in the scores of Democratic, facilitative and Situational leadership style in team and individual sport player, whereas it was found that there is no significant difference in the scores of authoritative leadership style in team and individual sport players.