Author(s): Dr. Jose Mathew and Dr. Kiran GN

Abstract:
Management and leadership are essential to professional practice in sport organization and managerial leadership combines management and leadership into a coherent integrated concept “managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things and by virtue of their formal role in the sport organization, sports administrators are responsible for empowering subordinates to establish and achieve goals. Management is about coping with complexity and leadership is about coping with changes; both management and leadership are needed for a successful management and good management skills are needed to achieve goals. The extent of their leadership skills will largely dictate the outcomes of their actions with subordinates. The question is what makes an effective leader? The purpose of this paper is to express a perspective regarding managerial leadership, draw a lesson from managerial leadership literature, gain insight from researches about managerial leadership effectiveness and infer from this literature prescriptions for practicing sports administrators. This paper reviews, managerial leadership functions traits and skills, effective managerial leadership styles and challenges.

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