Leadership Styles of Students

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In every university, there exist student athletes who participate and compete in the different sport competitions such as basketball, volleyball, football, tennis, swimming and even martial arts. Besides a fun and exciting way to get involved in competitive physical activities, playing sports provide the athletes a well-rounded character: they help develop skills based on teamwork, camaraderie and most importantly leadership. The University offers variety of sports in every student enrolled all throughout the year. Students who are qualified in particular sports and with good, maintained grades, they can freely select whichever sports they want to get involved with. The university is known to produce a variety of high- skilled athletes competing in every sports event in and out of the school. Not only that these athletes are recognized as high- skilled, they are also very serious when it comes to their studies. In fact, those athletes also pay attention to their academic performance in school regardless that they have to practice almost every day for the competitions they have to compete with. Lewin et al (1939) concluded that democratic style of leadership is the most effective, but Smith and Peterson (1988) pointed that the effectiveness of group leaders is dependent on the criterion which was being used to assess leadership. Thus, if leadership is assessed in terms of productivity, then autocratic style is most efficient but if the role is seen as maintaining good morale and a steady level of work, democratic style is effective. Absence of leadership style brings about lack of direction from the leader resulting in low morale and lack of interest in the work. Hayers (2000) found that workers who fell under pressure reported autocratic supervision on the part of their leaders. The leaders rarely allowed them to participate in the decision making. It was also

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