EXAMINATION OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS OF SPORT FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS

In the study, transformational leadership levels of sport facility administrators were established and differences according to the demographic characteristics of participants were examined. In the study where descriptive survey model was used transformational leadership scale developed by Bass and Avolio (1995) was implemented as a data collection tool on 293 sport administrators in the Province of Ankara. In the search result, the fact that administrators who graduated from educational institutions related to physical education and sports have a higher kevel of transformational leadership ( ? =4,07) and idealized effect dimension take the place on top has been established. It was determined that Private Sport Facility administrators have higher transformational leadership levels, and significant difference in favour of private sport facility administrators in “Motivation with Prompting” and “Intellectual Stimulation” sub-dimenstions, and sport facility administrators working in local authorities in “Idealized Effect (Behavior)” subdimension was identified. The fact that gender variable and leadership levels of the participants are on the same level and, nonetheless, there is a significant difference in favour of administrators who graduated from educational institutions related to physical education and sports in transformational leadership scale and “Idealized Effect (Imputed)”, “Motivation with Prompting”, “Intellectual Stimulation”, “Individual Support” sub-dimensions was detected.