Self-leadership strategies and career success: insight on sports organizations

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the direct and indirect relationship between self-leadership strategies and career success, using self-efficacy as a mediator.

Design/methodology/approach

A quantitative methods approach was used to gather the data, using a sample of 418 registered individuals in sports organizations.

Findings

The results revealed that there is a significant relationship between self-leadership strategies and self-efficacy, and between self-efficacy and career success. Further, self-efficacy was found to fully mediate the relationship between the self-leadership and career success.

Research limitations/implications

The paper provides an insight into the direct and indirect relationships between self-leadership and career success. In addition, this paper suggests future directions that researchers can undertake to advance self-leadership in the field of leadership research and the area of sport leadership.

Originality/value

Self-leadership has become an essential need today for most leadership roles in sport settings. The present study also advances self-leadership research in sport settings.

Citation

Megheirkouni, M. (2018), "Self-leadership strategies and career success: insight on sports organizations", Sport, Business and Management, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 393-409. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-02-2018-0006