ملخص الدراسة:

This study aimed at identifying the leadership and management characteristics of volleyball coaches in Jordan from the perspective of the players according to the variables of (the club and the training age). The sample of study was chosen randomly. It consisted of 94 players and constituted about 78% of the total population. The researchers used the descriptive approach with its survey image. The scale of the Leadership and management characteristics was used. The scale consisted of 43 items which were distributed to four domains (The personal domain, the professional domain, the social domain and the scientific domain). The means, standard deviations, One-Way Anova and Scheffe test for multiple comparisons were used. The results of study showed that the leadership and management characteristics among the coaches of volleyball were of a high degree. The study results also showed that there are statistically significant differences in the leadership and management characteristics for the responses of the players with regard to the variable of training age in favor of (less than 5 years). The researchers recommends about the necessity of using the leadership and management characteristics of the coaches when planning for the training courses, as well as putting them within the content of the programs for promoting the coaches in the field of volleyball.