Investigation of a Leadership Development Program.
Abstract
This study investigated whether individual leadership style and characteristics are affected by leadership training. A quantitative approach was taken, using Sashkin's Visionary Leadership Theory (VLT) to study the effects of a certificated military leadership school, the U. S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College, located at Air University in Montgomery, Alabama. A recurrent institutional cycle research design was used to examine pre-training, post-training, one-year post-training, and two-year post-training scores for ACSC classes over a three-year period. Effects were measured immediately after the training intervention and one and two years later. Findings of this longitudinal study support VLT: a leadership development curriculum based on transformational leadership can result in significant increases in leadership self-assessment scores after the training intervention. Moreover, the findings suggest that exposure to the transformational leader (as well as to the organizational culture that leader has constructed) has long-term effects that continue long after the training intervention. That is, under those conditions trainees experience continued increases in self-assessed leadership scores, measured one and two years after the intervention. Exposure to the transformational curriculum alone did not produce such a continuing effect on trainee leadership development.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 04, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA350737
Entities
People
- Brad D. Lafferty
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology