A Group and Interpersonal Relations Seminar using two training formats differing in their residential nature was investigated for opinion change in democratic leadership. (Author/EB)

Fiedler's theory of leader effectiveness is described and related to other approaches to leadership. The application of Fiedler's concepts to educational organizations is investigated through a discussion of studies carried out in western Canadian schools. (Author)

Reports on the design and results of an effort to change the organization style of a sales unit in a business organization. (LN)

The relationship between empathy and style of leadership was investigated. Small groups of undergraduates were assessed for predictive and perceived empathy and for leadership style. Multiple regression analysis indicated that predictive, but not perceived, empathy was a significant predictor of leadership style. Other components of leadership…

This research review investigates the influence of gender on the perception of the leader, interaction with followers, and situation dynamics. Research in this area is necessary to the development of a conceptual framework to give direction and meaning to the further investigation of women in leadership. (CJ)

Reviews the decline in productivity and motivation, theories of work motivation, and changes in the work ethic and work attitudes. Recommends the revitalization of five essentials of sound management: recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, supervision, and compensation. (SK)

Investigates Fiedler's contingency theory regarding the relationship between the years of experience of principals rated as high and low LPC (Least Preferred Coworker) and the satisfaction of teachers in their schools. Subjects were 93 principals and 627 secondary school teachers. (Author/CM)

Poses several questions concerning self-disclosure in group counseling and draws on research findings and clinical experience to provide tentative answers and guidelines for group leaders. (Author)

Successful interdisciplinary research performance, it is suggested, depends on such structural and process factors as leadership, team characteristics, study bounding, iteration, communication patterns, and epistemological factors. Appropriate frameworks for socially organizing the development of knowledge such as common group learning, modeling,…

The Perceived Task Complexity Measuring Instrument can be used as a management training tool and can provide managers insights into their job environments. (Author/MLF)

Considers the findings of Lewin, Lippitt, and White on the effects of leadership styles. (Author/WD)

A discussion of types and styles of administration and supervision is followed by approaches to promoting and sustaining change and organizational innovation in social service agencies. (SK)

A principal explains how with school-based management and a concern for relationships (between students and students, students and teachers, and teachers and the principal) he has helped make his school work. (IRT)

The principal who faces himself or herself and chooses, whatever the choice, will find comfort in the knowledge that he or she has taken charge, not of a situation or of the problems of other people, but of himself or herself. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the appropriateness of Richard Nixon's staging a ceremony to nominate Gerald Ford as vice-president following Spiro Agnew's resignation, in terms of generic transference (superimposing an established rhetorical form onto an unprecedented rhetorical situation). The ceremony reaffirmed American values and temporarily suspended growing…