Leadership Styles and Occupational Stress Among College Athletic Directors: The Moderating Effect of Program Goals

Abstract

The interaction between an individual's abilities and the perceived demands of the workplace appears to make a unique contribution to job-related stress above and beyond that of dispositional or situational factors alone (R. S. Lazarus, 1990). In the present study, the author evaluated this contention among 245 male intercollegiate athletic directors by assessing the combined influence of leadership style and program goals on occupational stress. Regression analyses revealed the presence of both significant main effects and interaction effects of leadership style and program goals in the prediction of emotional exhaustion, daily job stress, and personal accomplishment. Findings are discussed in terms of person-environment fit theory (J. R. P. French, R. D. Caplan, & R. V. Harrison, 1982) and the notion of perceived control within the occupational setting.

Servant Leadership and Its Impact on Ethical Climate

“…Burton and Welty Peachey (2013) suggested investigating if intercollegiate athletic administrators adopting servant leadership behaviors might influence different responses to ethical issues facing the commercialization within intercollegiate athletics. While two studies were found that specifically examined leadership in Division III, including one on the effects of transactional and transformation leadership (Burton & Welty Peachey, 2009) and the other on the impact of leadership style and organizational goals on emotional exhaustion, job stress, and personal accomplishment (Ryska, 2002), NCAA Division I athletics programs get most of the media exposure and are most often studied by sport management scholars (e.g., Burton, Welty Peachey, & Wells, 2017;Gaul, 2015;Gurney, Lopiano, & Zimbalist, 2017). To address the void of information about NCAA Division III institutions, this study examined the relationship between servant leadership and ethical climate in NCAA Division III athletic departments.…”

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“…Schneider and Stier (2001) noted that it does not matter if one is an athletic director at a high school, a junior college, or a college/university -the elements of administering the sports program are essentially the same. The increased expectations and expanded roles for interscholastic athletic directors (Ha, Hums, & Greenwell, 2011;Hoch, 2008;Kalahar, 2011;Nagel, 2012;Schnieder & Stier, 2001;Sullivan, Lonsdale, & Taylor, 2014) as well as intercollegiate athletic directors (Robinson, Peterson, Tedrick, & Carpenter, 2003;Ryska, 2002;Weight & Zullo, 2015) have been documented in the literature. However, there is a paucity of research on independent school athletic directors in general, and specifically, there exists a gap in the literature on the impact of the increased expectations and expanded roles of athletic directors at independent schools.…”

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