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

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)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA054764

Entities

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  • Arie Y. Lewin
  • Shelley S. Layman

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  • Duke University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Leadership
  • Mental Processes
  • New York
  • Perception
  • Personality
  • Personnel Selection
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Supervisors
  • Thinking

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