Investigation of the leadership characteristics of the turkic world youth association in relation to "establishing the structure" dimension of leadership behaviors

Abstract

The era we are living in is the information era and young people are of great importance for countries' development and Turkish youth will prepare the future of the nation and help the other nations to design the future of the world. Due to this important role of the young people, this descriptive study conducted according to scanning model aims to investigate the leadership tendencies of the youths of Turkic world and Turkey in relation to the dimension of establishing the structure. The study also looks at whether the relations between displaying leadership behaviors related to dimension of establishing the structure and gender are significant and whether there are significant differences between the opinions of the youth of Turkey and the rest of the Turkic world in relation to the dimension of establishing the structure. The data collection tool used in the study is Halphin and Winer (1957)'s "scale for the determination of the leadership behaviors". This scale was adapted to Turkish by nal (1979) and the establishing the structure dimension of this scale was adapted by the researcher to be used in the present study. The present study was conducted in 2007-2008 school year. The study was conducted in Izmir Girls' High school among 50 students (21 girls and 29 boys) coming from 12 different countries and studying at 8 different universities in Turkey. The students participating in the study are exchange students attending universities within the framework of "Interuniversity student exchange program". The analyses conducted reveal that the frequencies of the students' opinions vary and aggregation is around the "often" option. According to gender variable, Significant difference in favor of the boys was found for the fourth item and according to the opinions of the youth of Turkey and the youth of the Turkic world, a significant difference in favor of the Turkic world was found for the third item and for the rest of the items, no significant differences were found. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved