Rules for Leadership. Improving Unit Performance

Abstract

This book presents an original set of leadership rules to improve unit performance at all organizational levels. The work is designed to fill the considerable gap between the very position-specific, recipe-type lists of things you should do or not do in this particular job approach and the General Patton- type speech approach that provides a lot of inspiration to excel, but very few specifics as to what one ought to do. In essence, then, this book presents a set of principles of rules that a leader can apply in any situation to improve his group's performance. This work is also intended to serve academic theorists by presenting findings which considerably reduce the great deal of conflict in the research literature and among several of the published theories. An Overview: Rules for Leadership; Leader Actions: Style and Enforcement of Performance Standards; Group Skills: Member and Leader Intelligence and Ability; Group Incentive: Member and Leader Motivation; Group Bonding: Unit Cohesion; Using the Rules for Leadership.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA187577

Entities

People

  • Jon W. Blades

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Basic Training
  • Educational Psychology
  • Instructors
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Test Methods
  • United States Military Academy
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Organizational Psychology.