The Effectiveness of Leadership Skills Development Program for University Students / Üniversite Öğrencilerine Yönelik Liderlik Becerileri Geliştirme Programının Etkililiği

Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a leadership skills education program for higher education students. In this program, education was provided to improve the desire for struggle and goal setting, communication skills, group skills, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, responsibility awareness, trusting and trustworthiness awareness, leadership awareness and emotional awareness within the framework of leadership skills. The study group of the research consists of final-year students with the average age of 23.8 years studying at the Faculty of Economics of Karabuk University in the 2016-2017 academic year. The data of the study were collected with the “Youth leadership characteristics scale”, “Emotional self-awareness scale” and “Awareness of leader and leadership scale”. The retrospective pretest-posttest experimental model was used in the study. The differentiation levels of the pretest and posttest scores of the students included in the education program were examined with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. It was observed at the end of the study that the desire for struggle and goal setting, communication skills, group skills, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, responsibility awareness, trusting and trustworthiness awareness, leadership awareness and emotional awareness levels of the students who participated in the education program significantly increased from a moderately sufficient level to a quite sufficient level. It was indicated that the applied leadership skills education program was effective. Oz Bu arastirmanin amaci, yuksekogretim ogrencilerine donuk olarak gelistirilen bir liderlik becerileri egitimi programinin etkililiginin incelenmesidir. Bu programda liderlik becerileri cercevesinde mucadele istegi ve hedef koyma, iletisim becerileri, grup becerileri, problem cozme becerileri, karar verme becerileri, sorumluluk farkindaligi, guven duyma ve guvenilir olma farkindaligi, liderlik farkindaligi ve duygusal farkindaligi gelistirmeye yonelik bir egitim verilmistir. Arastirmanin calisma grubunu 2016-2017 yilinda Karabuk Universitesi’ndeki ortalama yasi 23.8 olan iktisat fakultesi son sinif ogrencileri olusturmaktadir. Arastirmanin verileri “Genclik Liderlik Ozellikleri Olcegi”, “Duygusal Benlik Bilinci Olcegi” ve “Lider ve Liderlik Hakkinda Farkindalik Olcegi” ile toplanmistir. Calismada gecmise dayali ontest-son test deneysel modeli kullanilmistir. Egitim programinda yer alan ogrencilerin ontest ve sontest puanlarinin farklilasma duzeyleri Wilcoxon isaretli siralar testi ile sinanmistir. Arastirma sonunda egitim programina katilan ogrencilerde mucadele istegi ve hedef koyma, iletisim becerileri, grup becerileri, problem cozme becerileri, karar verme becerileri, sorumluluk farkindaligi, guven duyma ve guvenilir olma farkindaligi, liderlik farkindaligi ve duygusal farkindalik duzeylerinin orta derecede yeterli duzeyden oldukca yeterli duzeye anlamli bir sekilde yukseldigi gorulmustur. Uygulanan liderlik becerileri egitimi programinin etkili oldugu ortaya konulmustur.