Management Styles and Leadership Behavior Within a Residence Life Program

Autor: Loyde W. Hales, James Y. K. Moy
Rok vydání: 1973
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Zdroj: The Journal of Experimental Education. 42:33-36
ISSN: 1940-0683
0022-0973
DOI: 10.1080/00220973.1973.11011439
Popis: This study investigated the leadership behavior of residence life staff members, the management styles of the organization, and their relationship to each other. Staff members and students within the Residence Life Program at Ohio University comprised the sample used. Staff perceptions on the Profile of Organizational Char acteristics were significantly different for each mode of responding. When the staff was classified into four leadership behavior quadrants by the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire, their perceptions of the or ganization "as it is" did not differ significantly across quadrants, but perceptions of personal behavior and of what the organization "should be" differed across quadrants. THE PURPOSE OF this study was to investigate the leadership behavior of residence life staff mem bers, the management styles of the organization, and their relationship to each other. How leaders behave and how they perceive their own behavior often becomes the substance of interpersonal mis understanding among members of an organization. An understanding of these conditions is of considerable
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