Characterizations of Successful Leaders: A Comparison of Leadership and Non-Leadership Students

Autor/in	Clapham, Maria M.
Titel	Characterizations of Successful Leaders: A Comparison of Leadership and Non-Leadership Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Leadership Education, 20 (2021) 2, S.1-11 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1552-9045
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Student Leadership; Leadership Training; Student Attitudes; Leadership Qualities; Leadership Effectiveness; Leadership Styles; Rating Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studentenwerk; Führungslehre; Schülerverhalten; Führungseigenschaft; Führungseffizienz; Führungsstil; Rating-Skala
Abstract	This study compared characterizations of successful leaders held by students enrolled in a college level leadership education program to those of students who did not participate in the program. Participants consisted of students from the following groups: graduating seniors who completed the leadership program, students enrolled in the first course of the program, and students who never enrolled in leadership courses. Each participant rated a "successful leader" on descriptors from Duehr & Bono's (2006) Revised Descriptive Index. Scoring of these descriptors resulted in five leadership dimensions: agentic, communal, task-oriented, relationship-oriented, and transformational. Analyses compared these dimension ratings across the three groups of participants. Results revealed that non-leadership students ascribed significantly higher levels of agentic and task-oriented characteristics to successful leaders than both beginning and graduating leadership students. Non-leadership students also ascribed significantly lower levels of communal characteristics to successful leaders than graduating leadership students. Results showed no significant differences between the three groups of students in relationship-oriented or transformational characteristics ascribed to successful leaders. These finding have implications for leadership education. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Association of Leadership Educators. e-mail: Jole@aged.tamu.edu; Web site: http://leadershipeducators.org/page-1014283
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01