Relationship among philosophy of education, leadership style of directors and organizational climate in the colleges and departments of physical education

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship among colleges of physical education deans and department heads’ educational philosophy, leadership style and organizational climate in the universities of Iran. The samples of the study contained 63 directors and 185 faculties. The instruments utilized were Wiles and Bondi, philosophy preferences assessment questionnaire that was completed by the directors and Susman and Deep organizational climate and also Hersey and Blanchard leadership style questionnaires which was completed by the faculty members. The findings revealed that: The most important philosophy within the directors in 22 of the departments and colleges was Experimentalism (33.6±3.51) and the lowest was idealism (26.9±3.93). The most important leadership style in 13 of the physical education colleges and departments was selling (4.5±2.16) and the lowest was Delegative (1.7±2.69). The average score of organizational climate in physical education climate was related to physical education department in Ardabil university (55.4) and the lowest score was related to the P.E. college in Alzahra university (30.5). The study failed to find a significant relationship between philosophies of education and antirational climate and its subscales at P<.05. There was a significant relationship between participatory leadership style and organizational climate and its subscale of clarity of role at P<.01. Also, there was a significant relationship between participatory style and other subscales of organizational climate such as satisfaction of rewards, clarity of objectives and effectiveness of policies and practices. No significant relationship was found between philosophies of education and leadership style at P<.05.