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Managers' Personalities and Their Leadership Perceptions.
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Nystrom, Paul C. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Investigated relationships between 155 managers' personalities (rigidity, intolerance of ambiguity, locus of control) and their leadership perceptions (initiating structure, consideration, and least preferred co-worker). Only two of the twenty-four differences between means exhibited statistical significance, providing little support for a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Leadership Styles, Locus of Control
Attraction and Evaluation as a Function of the Ingratiating Style of a Person.
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Pandey, Janak; Bohra, Kayyum A. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Examined the way male undergraduates (N=48) evaluated an ingratiating/non-ingratiating person, particularly when the evaluations were not the target of his compliments. Results revealed that the person's ingratiating versus non-ingratiating style significantly influenced subjects' attraction and evaluation toward him. The non-ingratiating person…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Cultural Traits, Evaluation Criteria
Reactions to Leadership Style as a Function of Locus of Control and Ascendancy of Subordinates.
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Rucker, M. H.; King, D. C. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
Investigated effects of ascendancy and perceived locus of control on reactions to participative and manipulative leadership among college males, using Guilford-Zimmerman ascendancy scores and Rotter Internal-External scale scores. Results indicated that the two personality measures were associated with different reactions to the two styles of…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles