TITLE:
The Leadership Approaches by Football Coaches That Are Favored by the Profesional Football Players in Malaysia
AUTHORS:
Muhammad Rijal Fikry Yusoff, Tajul Arifin Muhamad
KEYWORDS:
Leadership Approaches, Football Coaches, Football Players, Dimensions of Leadership, League Level
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.9 No.14,
October
31,
2018
ABSTRACT: This research studies the leadership approaches by football coaches that are favored by
professional football players in Malaysia based on age, race and league level.
A total of 100 professional players aged between 20 and 40 years in Malaysia
were selected using a purposive sampling method. The Leadership Scale for
Sports (LSS) questionnaire developed (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980) has been used to
identify the style of coaching leadership in favor of professional footballers
in Malaysia based on age, race and league level. This questionnaire was used to
measure the five dimensions of leadership approaches namely training and instruction
dimension (12 questions), democratic dimension (10 questions), autocratic
dimension (6 questions), dimension of social support (6 questions) and positive
feedback dimension (6 questions). The results of the descriptive study show
that the players are more interested in democratic dimension leadership
approach and the less desirable is the autocratic dimension leadership approach. T-test
shows that there is no significant age-based difference in the leadership style
of a coach who is interested by professional football players in Malaysia with
the value of p > 0.05 (t = 0.14). T-test also showed that there was no
significant difference based on the level of the league for the coach’s
approach that is favored by professional footballers in Malaysia with a value
of p > 0.05 (t = 1.20). The Kruskal-Wallis Test shows that there is no
significant difference between races in all dimensions of leadership style with
p > 0.05 values. This study has showed that democratic leadership approach is
most favored by football players based on age, race and league level.