Investigating Relationship Between Leadership Leadership Styles With Staff Thinking Styles With the Purpose of Entrepreneurship of Staffs in Sports and Youth Departments of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between managers 'transformational leadership style and employees' thinking style with the aim of entrepreneurship of employees of sports and youth departments of Sistan and Baluchestan province. The research method is descriptive-correlational which has been done in the field. The statistical population of the study consisted of all managers and employees of sports and youth departments of Sistan and Baluchestan province with 1300 people. The sample size was selected by placing the population size in the Cochran's formula of 296 people using random sampling method. The instruments used in the study were Bass and Olivier (2000) Transformational Leadership Questionnaire, Robbins and Coulter (1996) Organizational Entrepreneurship Questionnaire and Sternberg-Wagner (1998) Thinking Style Questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by 10 experts and their reliability was calculated in a preliminary test with 30 subjects and with Cronbach's alpha for the Transformational Leadership Questionnaire (0.80), Organizational Entrepreneurship (0.82) and Thinking Style (0.74). Pearson correlation coefficient and statistical regression with SPSS software version 22 were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between managers' transformational leadership style and thinking style and entrepreneurial goal of Sistan and Baluchestan sports and youth employees. The results also showed that there is a significant relationship between employees 'thinking style and employees' entrepreneurial goal. Therefore, it is recommended to use new leadership styles such as transformational leadership in sports and youth departments to create entrepreneurship in employees and create creative thinking in them.