A study on the application of the contingency management theory to the team management in case of the track and field at senior high school

Abstract

    In the contingency management theory, it is thought that the leader has to take a situational leadership. In the field of sports, the coach is supposed to conduct the team management which is appropriate to the team situation or the surroundings of team. Therefore, the author attempted to materialize the situational team management style which can be adapted to the team scale. For this puropose, he inquired the present situation of the coaches who instructed the track and field at senior high schools in Japan. The questionnaires sent to 500 coaches in October 1995, 325 whom replied to the inquiry. The data was analyzed about the relation between the team management and the team scale. As a result， the following finding was clarified. The coaches who manage a bigger team attached more importance to their roles not only of team organizing but also of promoting the relationship between their own team and other organizations. Accordingly, it can been suggested that the bigger the team is, the more important the above-mentioned roles are. In order to prove this suggestion, it is necessary to investigate the transition of each coache's roles in the future.