An investigation of transformational leadership traits among campus recreation department student-employees attending a regional public university / by Palmer Steiner.

Mentoring activities from the Leadership Challenge Workbook were used in a Campus Recreation setting and with Campus Recreation Staff at a regional public university in the Mid-Atlantic Region to show how mentoring could influence transformational leadership traits on student workers. A Multi Factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), developed by Avolio and Bass was used as a pre-test for an officials’ group, fitness center attendant group and a remote student worker group as a base score. After the pre-test, virtual mentoring sessions were provided to the officials’ group. After the mentoring sessions for officials, the MLQ was used again to assess all groups of student workers. A Mann Whitney U analysis test was used and results found that there was a significant difference p< 0.05 in the officials’ (n=18) post test scores compared to the combined group of fitness center attendants (n=11) and remote (n=10) post-test scores.