Accession Number:

AD0423964

Title:

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SEVEN LEADERSHIP CRITERIA AND SELECTED VARIABLES

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA

Personal Author(s):

• Burnham, Lucy E.
• Lee, Hans E.

Report Date:

1963-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

24.0

Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to indicate whether personality test variables would be useful in predicting criteria of leadership and to study the relationship between the two instruments for measuring leadership, observation codings and sociometric choices, in the way they correlated with selected Management Potential Test Battery variables. While the GPA-1 showed significant correlations with the sociometric data, average correlation is .57 with guidance of the group, GPA-1 was not highly correlated with any of the observation data. In addition, the POQ proved to be significantly correlated with both the observation data, average correlation with task oriented acts is . 50, and the sociometric data, average correlation with guidance is -.37. These results indicate that the sociometric choices by members of the group are based on different qualities of leadership than are observers ratings of the same group behavior. Of theoretical importance is the finding that observation codings and the sociometric choices seem to be measuring two different types of leadership behavior, task-oriented behavior and socio-emotional behavior.

Descriptors:

• *PERSONALITY
• *GROUP DYNAMICS
• *LEADERSHIP
• *BEHAVIOR
• *SOCIOMETRICS
• STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• STANDARDS

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE