Management Leadership in System Measurement Beds Revisited
Abstract
More than 30 years of research by the Army on managerial leadership behavior confirms that the effectiveness of a unit or group depends critically on its leader or manager. The many variables which interact in effective leadership may be analyzed as parts of several different, interwoven systems. One of the most basic systems distinguishes between noncognitive and cognitive aspects of human performance. (The noncognitive deals with values and emotionally colored value judgments, and styles of action; the cognitive deals with logic and facts that are demonstrably right or wrong). Another system distinguishes authoritarian and participative styles of management. A third focuses on types of selection, training, and job environment to produce effective worker performance. Noncognitive aspects dominate in selection rating and ranking judgments, situational training, and organizational variables at the workplace. Cognitive aspects dominate in selection and school tests, school training, and human factors engineering at the workplace--all readily measurable. Army officer leadership research has developed realistic assessment processes for measuring noncognitive aspects of leader behavior in a 'test bed' in which situational demands are defined and which yields constructs interrelating leader characteristics, leader behaviors, and situational requirements--the system measurement bed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA057479
Entities
People
- J. E. Uhlaner
Organizations
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences