A Study of Leadership Effectiveness (Social Support Behaviour) of Coaches in India

The purpose of the study was to compare leadership effectiveness of coaches belonging to central government State government and universities of India. All subjects were selected randomly. Overall 90 coaches 30 from central government, 30 from State government and 30 from universities were selected for the study. Leadership effectiveness was measured by using leadership scale for sports (LSS) developed by P. Chelladurai, S. D. Saleh. To compare Leadership effectiveness of coachs Analysis of variance was used with.05 level of Significance. Results In social support behaviour of leadership effectiveness showed State government coaches were significantly best among the three groups with mean values of (4.22) followed by university coaches with (3.98) mean values and central government coaches with mean values of (1.23).