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Predicting Organizational Effectiveness With a Four-Factor Theory of Leadership
Abstract
Recent research in the area of leadership seems to point to the existence of four basic dimensions of leadership: support, interaction facilitation, goal emphasis, and work facilitation. Data from a recent study of 40 agencies of one of the leading life insurance companies are used to evaluate the impact of both supervisory and peer leadership upon outcomes of satisfaction and factorial performance measures. Results from the study suggest that this conceptual model is useful and that leadership's relation to organizational outcomes may best be studied when both leadership and effectiveness are multidimensional. Both peer and supervisory leadership measures relate to outcomes. In most instances, the ability to predict is enhanced by taking simultaneous account of certain nonleadership variables. David G. Bowers is program associate at the Center for Research on the Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, The University of Michigan. Stanley E. Seashore is professor of psychology and assistant director of the Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.
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- Authors
- Bowers, D. G., & Seashore, S. E.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1966-09
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 238
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
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- W2328219772
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- 654
- References
- 0
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- 7.05
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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