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

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.