Μετασχηματιστική ηγεσία & ελληνικό επαγγελματικό ποδόσφαιρο
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Μετασχηματιστική ηγεσία ; Δείκτες απόδοσης ; Χρηματοοικονομικοί δείκτες ; Αθλητικοί δείκτες ; Διαστάσεις μετασχηματιστικής ηγεσίας ; Ελληνικό επαγγελματικό ποδόσφαιροAbstract
This dissertation examines the existence of Transformational Leadership in the Greek professional football sector as well as its correlation with performance indicators, both financial and sports related performance. The dissertation’s objective purpose is to ascertain whether any key performance indicators of the examined football clubs correlate with elements of the directors’ transformational leadership attributes. The distinctiveness of the professional football sector rests in the twofold interpretation of the club’s success, containing both financial and sports performance components. Financial success of a club does not lead necessarily to sports success. Therefore two different kinds of performance indicators are tested on whether they are affected in a different manner by transformational leadership. The research methodology was based on three parallel secondary analyses and it tries to quantify qualitative characteristics like personality and leadership. The first step of the research was the transcription of directors’ interviews and outfield statements followed by word processing on LIWC 2015 software, assisted by a Greek custom LIWC dictionary created for research purposes. Following the quantification of the transcriptions’ qualitative attributes, financial and sports performance data were gathered in order to create a pivot table. The data were analyzed on SPSS software in descriptive and inferential statistics so that possible correlations between the variables can be found. Several important conclusions derive from this research concerning transformational leadership and performance indicators. The main conclusion is the statistically significant correlation between transformational leadership and the seven following variables: profit margin, financial leverage, working capital, average of championship points gained, average of goal difference, lost matches average and Greek/foreign players ratio measured in minutes of play. It can be noted that transformational leadership affects positively the sports performance indicators of a professional football club. Concerning financial ratios, there appears to be a certain orientation towards profit margin growth in addition with a raised dependence on borrowed capital. In addition, there are correlations between performance indicators and the Big 5 attributes of personality. As there are many researches examining the relation between the Big 5 attributes and transformational leadership, it would be very interesting to incorporate those attributes as parameters for a transformational leadership assemblage. Finally, concerning the examined sample size it is suggested to expand this research either on every professional football team or in other team sports like basketball or volleyball.
Postgraduate Studies Programme
Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών στη Διοίκηση Επιχειρήσεων για Στελέχη (Executive MBA)Department
Σχολή Οικονομικών, Επιχειρηματικών και Διεθνών Σπουδών. Τμήμα Οργάνωσης και Διοίκησης ΕπιχειρήσεωνNumber of pages
109Language
GreekCollections
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