This study started with the selection of total 1,200 male and female middle and high school players registered at the Korea Soft Tennis Association as of 2007 as a population and used random sampling.
The investigator along with three researchers who ...
This study started with the selection of total 1,200 male and female middle and high school players registered at the Korea Soft Tennis Association as of 2007 as a population and used random sampling.
The investigator along with three researchers who took training before the study distributed questionnaires to 250 of them and asked them to fill them out in a self-administered manner.
After excluding 21 questionnaires whose answers were not sincere or missing, a total of 240 questionnaires (96%) were used as valid samples.
The gathered data were treated with the SPSS WIN 12.0 program. The general characteristics were examined through frequency analysis, and Cronbach's α coefficient was estimated to test the questionnaire's validity.
Thereafter exploratory factor analysis was conducted to categorize leadership styles, trust, and organizational commitment, being followed by correlation analysis to see the relationships among the variables.
Hypotheses were tested through multiple regression analysis, and the statistically significant level was set at p<.05.
Those research efforts resulted in the following conclusions:
First, the transformational leadership of the soft tennis instructors turned out to have significant impacts on the players' trust in them.
Second, the transactional leadership of the soft tennis instructors turned out to have significant impacts on the players' trust in them.
Third, the values leadership of the soft tennis instructors turned out to have significant impacts on the players' trust in them.
Fourth, and last, the players' trust in the instructors turned to have significant impacts on their organizational commitment.
In short, transformation leadership is more important than transactional leadership in increasing trust and organizational commitment between instructors and players of soft tennis. Considering the huge influences of the charisma factor, it should be noted that charisma is made possible only through an instructor's intellectual capability and trustworthiness. Instructors should also make constant efforts to study further and be reliable, given that values leadership according to situations exercises significant influences. In conclusion, ongoing trusting relationships between an instructor and a player can help the latter increase his or her organizational commitment and deter him or her from quitting soft tennis.