Presenting a model of the relationship between leadership style and attitude towards change with the mediation of moral intelligence in sports board managers

purpose: The purpose of this research was to provide a model of the relationship between leadership style and attitude towards change through the mediation of moral intelligence .methods: The method used in this research was correlation type in terms of implementation and strategy and was specifically based on the structural equation model. The statistical population of this research included all managers of sports teams in Alborz province (۳۳۶ persen), according to Morgan's table, the number of statistical samples was equal to ۱۷۹ people who were randomly selected from the statistical population. To collect data, three standard questionnaires were used, Hersey and Blanchard's leadership style (۱۹۸۹) and Jung's attitude towards change (۲۰۰۴), and to check moral intelligence, Link and Keel's standard questionnaire (۲۰۱۱) was used, and by using the software Statistical tools (SPSS and SmartPLS) were used to analyze the data .Results: The results of structural equation modeling showed that there is a relationship between leadership style, attitude towards change and moral intelligence of managers of sports teams in Alborz province. On the other hand, there is a relationship between moral intelligence and the attitude towards the change of managers of the organization. Then the results of the Sobel test showed that moral intelligence mediates the relationship between leadership style and managers' attitude towards change. Also, the results of the path analysis technique showed that there is a significant relationship between the components of leadership style, including commanding style, argumentative style, participatory style, and delegating style, with attitude towards change and moral intelligence.Conclusion: The results of the research showed that leadership style is related to attitude towards change and moral intelligence. The results of the research can help managers to provide a platform for raising the attitude towards change and promoting moral intelligence in order to increase the productivity and performance of the organization.

Keywords:

leadership style , managers , attitude towards change , moral intelligence , sports boards.