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Consideration, initiating structure, and organizational criteria—an update of korman's 1966 review

Steven Kerr, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1974 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 4, pp 555-568
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This article is published in Personnel Psychology.The article was published on 1974-12-01. It has received 145 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Leadership style.

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The forgotten ones? The validity of Consideration and Initiating Structure in leadership research

TL;DR: This study provided a meta-analysis of the relationship of the Ohio State leadership behaviors--Consideration and Initiating Structure--with leadership, and results provide important support for the validity of Initiating structure and Consideration in leadership research.
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Relationships between psychological climate perceptions and work outcomes: a meta-analytic review

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between individual-level (psychological) climate perceptions and work outcomes such as employee attitudes, psychological well-being, motivation, and performance and found that psychological climate, operationalized as individuals' perceptions of their work environment, does have significant relationships with individuals' work attitudes, motivation and performance.
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The Ambiguity of Leadership

TL;DR: In this article, the ambiguity of the concept of leadership and its definition and measurement, the issue of whether leadership affects organizational performance, and the process of selecting leaders are addressed, which frequently emphasizes organizationally-irrelevant criteria.
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Psychological climate: Dimensions and relationships of individual and aggregated work environment perceptions☆

TL;DR: This paper developed a comprehensive measure of work environment perceptions and investigated the appropriateness of using aggregated perceptual scores to describe subunit or organizational conditions, finding that five of the six dimensions found to underlie the perceptions of 4315 US Navy enlisted men were generalizable to comparison samples of firemen and health care managers.
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Assessing the Non-Random Sampling Effects of Subject Attrition in Longitudinal Research

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential effects of attrition in longitudinal research are addressed and a procedure for assessing its effects is recommended, using data collected from a random sample of employed adults in the US regarding job satisfaction, job characteristics, demographics and mood.
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A Path-Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness

TL;DR: In this article, an explanation of the effects of leader behavior on subordinate satisfaction, motivation, and performance is presented, derived from a path-goal theory of motivation, which specifies some of the situational moderators on which the effect of specific leader behaviors are contingent.
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The effects of supervisory behavior on the path-goal relationship

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of a leader's behavior (in terms of initiation of structure and consideration) on the subordinates' path-goal instrumentalities is examined, and data relevant to the theoretical scheme are presented for two organizations, although in one organization a set of positive results emerges, while in the second there is a consistent failure to support hypothesized relationships.
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Expectancy theory and job behavior

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that expectancy attitudes were significantly related to some measures of effort and performance, such as ability and role perception, and this led to a significant multiple correlation with performance.
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Toward a Contingency Theory of Leadership Based upon the Consideration and Initiating Structure Literature

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature involving the leader behavior dimensions "Consideration" and "Initiating Structure" is presented for the purpose of developing some situational propositions of leader effectiveness.