Behzad Izadi; Abed Mahmoodian
Volume 4, Issue 4 , January 2018, , Pages 75-89
Abstract
Servant leadership is the most effective leadership approach to creating and developing an ethical Climate in sports organizations due to its unique features.The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of servant leadership on perceptions of an ethical climate in Sport Organizations through ...
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Servant leadership is the most effective leadership approach to creating and developing an ethical Climate in sports organizations due to its unique features.The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of servant leadership on perceptions of an ethical climate in Sport Organizations through the mediating organizational trust and justice.The following survey was done with descriptive and Structural Equation modeling type. The statistical sample is equal to society (N = n=138),which includes all employees of sport and youth departments of Kurdistan province. From the standard questionnaires Servant leadership Van Dierendonck and Nuijten (2011),organizational justice Colquitt (2001), Trust Robinson (2012) and Ethical Climate Wang and Hsieh (2012) were used why their form and content validity and its internal consistency were verified respectively by specialists and by Cronbach's alpha(the order, .84, .80, .92, .85), and a confirmatory factor analysis for the validity of its constructs and SEM model was used for the analyses of the data.The findings showed that the leadership servant has a positive and significant effect on perception ethical climate.Also,two variables of trust and organizational justice have a positive and significant role in moderating role of relationship between leadership servant and ethical Climate. Sport organization managers can use the leadership style of the servant and behaviors of this style, and focus on organizational justice and the development of employees' trust, the creation and development of an ethical Climate to reduce the scandals, behaviors and ethical issues in the field Sports support
