Conceptual model test the effect of leadership styles on succession in the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran: The mediating role of managers' competence

the purpose of this study is to investigate the conceptual model of the impact of leadership styles on succession in the Ministry of Sports and Youth of Iran: the mediating role of managers competence. The present study is descriptive-correlational and it is a causal type. The statistical population of this study consisted of all employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth in 2019 to 890 people (569 men, 321 women). Based on the Morgan table, we selected 268 persons via nonrandom convenience sampling. The research tools consisted of Likert surveys for leadership styles (1998), Competence of Managers (Mohamadi et al, 2014) and Kim’s succession planning survey (2006). The Pearson correlation coefficient, t-sample correlation tests are used by SPSS and Lisrel software. The results showed that the trajectory coefficient of leadership styles on succession parenting is more than 0.412. The path coefficient for managers competence on succession is equal to 0.952. The path coefficient for leadership styles on the competence of managers is more than 0.506 and these values ​​are positive and significant and the competence of managers in influencing leadership styles on succession in the ministry Sports and youth in Iran are a minor mediator.