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Holbrook, Colin; Fessler, Daniel M. T. – Cognition, 2013
Victory in modern intergroup conflict derives from complex factors, including weaponry, economic resources, tactical outcomes, and leadership. We hypothesize that the mind summarizes such factors into simple metaphorical representations of physical size and strength, concrete dimensions that have determined the outcome of combat throughout both…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Leadership, War, Weapons
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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert; Van Keer, Hilde – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: In this study the relationship between school leadership and teachers' organizational commitment is examined by taking into account a distributed leadership perspective. The relation between teachers' organizational commitment and contextual variables of teachers' perceptions of the quality and the source of the supportive and supervisory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Secondary School Teachers, Participative Decision Making
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Hawley, Karen E.; Nichols, Mary Lippitt – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1982
Researchers presented 43 administrators at a large midwestern university with 22 hypothetical organizational problems in which authority was absent or unclear, to test models of the effects of contextual factors on insiders' and outsiders' decisions to participate in organizational "political" issues. The results led to revisions of the models.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Context Effect, Decision Making, Graphs