Leader Behavior Factor Structures: A Function of Leader Behavior, Implicit Leadership Theories or Both?

This study attempted to resolve the controversy in implicit leadership research concerning whether factor structures commonly found in leadership questionnaires are a function of the actual factor structures of leader behaviors, of the preconceived structures of leader behavior imposed by raters, or both. This study replicated and extended the Weiss and Adler (1981) study on implicit leadership theory. 250 subjects were asked to describe an imaginary supervisor using the Survey of Organizations and the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire Form XII leadership scales. The subjects also completed a measure of the differentiation aspect of cognitive complexity. High- and low-differentiation subgroups, formed by a median split, were then compared on perceptions of leader behavior covariation. The results were mixed. With the Survey of Organizations items, the high-differentiation subgroup had a lower mean inter-item correlation and a more differentiated factor structure than the low-differentiation subgroup. The correlation between differentiation scores and within-subject across-item variances also indicated that high-differentiation raters showed greater variability in scores for each ratee across dimensions than the low-differentiation raters using the Survey of Organizations items. However, the items from the LBDQ XII did not find any substantial differences between the differentiation subgroups. The analysis of a total of 44 items chosen from the two leadership questionnaires based on their high standard deviations also failed to find a substantial difference between the two subgroups. The controversy in implicity leadership research was therefore not resolved. Further investigation with alternative methods is warranted

The Deployment Of Directed Energy Weapons In Outer Space: An Evaluation

This thesis evaluates the logic of deploying directed energy weapons in outer space for use in anti-satellite and in anti-ballistic missile operations. The purpose of this evaluation is to determine if it is in the best interests of the United States to deploy directed energy weapons or to seek a treaty which would ban the development of such weapons

A Transect Through the Pre-Silurian Rocks of Central Vermont; The Lincoln Massic and Its Immediate Cover; The Pre-Silurian Hinterland Along the Valleys of the White and Mad Rivers, Central Vermont; Metamorphism of Pre-Silurian Rocks, Central Vermont; Regional Geochemical Variations in Greenstones from the Central Vermont Appalachians

Guidebook for field trips in Vermont: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 79th annual meeting, October 16, 17 and 18, 1987: Trips B-8; C-