Accession Number:

ADA021888

Title:

Management Leadership in System Measurement Beds

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ALEXANDRIA VA

Personal Author(s):

• Uhlaner, J. E.

Report Date:

1975-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

The U.S. Armys over 30 years of research dealing with measurement, understanding, prediction, and development of managerial leadership behavior confirms that the effectiveness of a unit or group depends critically on its leader or manager. A great many variables interact in effective leadership. These may be analyzed as parts of several different but interwoven systems, of which one of the most basic is the distinction between cognitive and noncognitive aspects of human performance. The cognitive deals with logic and facts that are demonstratably right or wrong the noncognitive deals with values and emotionally colored value judgments. A second basic distinction is in style of management--authoritarian vs. participative-- and its interactions with other factors. The system measurement test bed, then, can be used to study selected interactions of utilitarian variables to produce specific usable findings, in this case for the Armys leadership management program.

Descriptors:

• *LEADERSHIP
• *OFFICER PERSONNEL
• ARMY PERSONNEL
• BEHAVIOR
• MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL
• MEASUREMENT
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• SELECTION
• SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
• TRAINING

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE