Personality, Motivational Systems, and Behavior of High and Low LPC persons

Abstract

The paper presents a new interpretation of the least preferred coworker (LPC) score which suggests that the score reflects a hierarchy of goals. High LPC persons have as their primary goal the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations and as a secondary goal the attainment of prominence and self-enhancement. The low LPC person is seen as having as his primary goal the achievement of tasks and material relations. The implications of this interpretation and the supporting data for the prediction of behavior, leadership training, and personality theory are discussed, as is the integration of the contingency model results with findings obtained in other leadership research programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0714230

Entities

People

  • Fred E. Fiedler

Organizations

  • University of Washington

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Contracts
  • Education
  • Geography
  • Hierarchies
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Leadership
  • Leadership Training
  • Military Research
  • Personality
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Organizational Psychology.