Toward an Information Processing Theory of Leadership Attribution: A Review and a Paradigm for Research.

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Abstract:

Historically, leadership research has followed a cycle of extending, reworking, discarding and developing new ideas as the inadequacies and limitations of existing theories were realized. Calder 1977, Pfeffer 1977, and Mitchell, Larson and Green 1975 have all argued for the need to study leadership as a process of attribution. This paper presents the case for the study of leadership an attribution process reports on the results of two studies in which information processing models were developed of the attribution process in which individuals engage while rating peers on several sociometric measures of leadership and proposes a paradigm for the study of the leadership attribution processes within actual organizational settings. Author

Author(s):
Lewin, Arie Y. ; Layman, Shelley S.
Author Organization(s):
DUKE UNIV DURHAM N C GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Descriptive Note:
Progress rept.,
Supplementary Note:
Presented at the Joint National Meeting of the Inst. of Management Sciences and Operations Research Society of America, New York City, 1-3 May 78.
Pagination:
0042

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
TR-5
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-76-C-0007
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_8.1_Communicate; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_8.1.3_Influence Adversary and Competitor Audiences; JCA_8.1.1_Inform Domestic and Foreign Audiences; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_4_Logistics
Communities of Interest:
Human Systems
Descriptor(s):
*LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL, DECISION MAKING, SKILLS, PERFORMANCE(HUMAN), INFORMATION THEORY, PERSONNEL SELECTION, JOB ANALYSIS, JOB SATISFACTION, PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT, PERSONALITY, INFORMATION PROCESSING, INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT
Field(s)/Group(s):
Administration and Management, Psychology, Personnel Management and Labor Relations
Keyword(s):
WUNR170805
Report Date:
1978 May 01