Understanding Predicting and Supporting Leader Self-Development

Abstract

Systematic research was performed to better understand and support individual professional self-development. Over 400 junior-military leaders participated in detailed longitudinal research to test a structural model of leader self-development. Results provide a unifying framework for understanding the effects of individual characteristics on propensity for self-development. The model depicts a person with a mastery, work, and career-growth orientation as more motivated to perform leader self-development and more skilled at performing instructional and self-regulatory processes and therefore more likely to perform leader self-development. Further, results indicated that an organizational support tool moderated the actual performance of leader self-development activities. The implications of the results for self- development theory and for leader self-development in the Army are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA442647

Entities

People

  • Lisa A. Boyce
  • Michelle M. Wisecarver
  • Stephen J. Zaccaro

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Applied Psychology
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Human Resources
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Education
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
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  • Psychology

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  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Organizational Psychology.