The Relationship between Organizational Experience and Perceived Leader Behavior,

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between organizational experience and perceived leader behavior in a sample of U.S. Navy enlisted personnel. Two bodies of literature (traditional organizational and cognitive processes) were reviewed which resulted in alternative viewpoints regarding the number of dimensions necessary to describe leader behavior in high or low experience groups. Principal components analyses of measures of perceived leader behavior conducted on high (n = 231) and low (n = 255) tenure groups indicated support for the cognitive processes perspective in that a greater number of meaningful leadership dimensions were found for more experienced workers. Comparison of relationships between matched perceived leader dimensions and measures of the workgroup environment for both groups established the predictive and discriminant validity of the derived leader components. Results are discussed in terms of the need for determining the representativeness of various leader behaviors in different work environment settings. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA104422

Entities

People

  • James M. La Rocco
  • Mark C. Butler

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Biomedical Research
  • Classification
  • Cognition
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Environment
  • Factor Analysis
  • Leadership
  • New York
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Security
  • Social Psychology
  • Supervisors
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.