Management Leadership in System Measurement Beds

Abstract

The U.S. Army's 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 Army's leadership management program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA021888

Entities

People

  • J. E. Uhlaner

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blood Coagulation Factors
  • Environment
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Judgment
  • Leadership
  • Management Personnel
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Motor Skills
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Test Beds
  • Training
  • United States

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  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Theoretical Analysis.