Abstract
What kinds of influencies on the sport team does the leader's behavior have? This problem makes us reserch the sport team in terms of a Situational Leadership Thoary (SL Thoary). SL Theary emphasizes the relationship between an effective style of leader's behavior and the level of maturity of one's followers. We focus on the "Initiating Structure" in various categories of leader's behavior. And we define the "Initiating Structure" as the leader's endeavor to establish well-defined and well-devised training procedures of a sport team which help one's followers perfom their aims. The purpose of this paper is to identify how the effect of leader's "Initiating Structure" vary with the level of maturity of one's followers. Our hypothesis is that "Initiating Structure" decrease the uncertainty of expectancy and enhance the intrinsic satisfaction of followers in the low-maturity group, but that in the high-maturity group, followers continue the team-activity with high level of expectancy and intrinsic satisfaction however less the "Initiating Structure" is, and a great amount of "Initiating Structure" trouble mature followers and enhance the conflict. The survey was done in July, 1988. Main results were described below, which were sampled 42 basket-ball teams (614 menbers) in junior high schools and high schools 1) "Initiating Structure" had positive correlation with both expectancy and intrinsic satisfaction significantly in the low-maturity group. And the members of the high-maturity group had always high level of expectancy and intrinsic satisfaction with no relation to "Initiating Structure". 2) It seemed that a great amount of "Initiating Structure" had an effect on the conflict resolution in the high-maturity group.
