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Cooperative and Competitive Relationships Between Leaders and Subordinates
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In this article, the authors drew upon the experimentally supported theory of cooperation and competition to develop measures of three different kinds of leader orientation: cooperative, competitive, and individualistic, which were used by 310 medical laboratory technicians from 10 different hospitals to describe the specific job behaviors of their immediate supervisor.Abstract:
It has been argued that leadership research questionnaires should be based upon a theoretical position that has considerable experimental support for its causal relationships. This study drew upon the experimentally supported theory of cooperation and competition to develop measures of three different kinds of leader orientation: cooperative, competitive, and individualistic. These measures were used by 310 medical laboratory technicians from 10 different hospitals to describe the specific job behaviors of their immediate supervisor. The leaders' orientation scores derived from these behavior descriptions were then correlated with measures of overall job satisfaction, satisfaction with supervision, the desire to perform well, and the desire to stay on the job. As predicted by theory, the correlations with dependent measures were strongly positive for a cooperative orientation and strongly negative for a competitive orientation. The correlations for an individualistic orientation were negative and larger t...read more
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Progress in Small Group Research
TL;DR: The Revue de la litterature sur les petits groupes (ecologie, structure, composition, conflit, performance) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of petits groups.
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Interdependence and Controversy in Group Decision Making: Antecedents to Effective Self-Managing Teams
TL;DR: Findings on 60 self-managing teams indicate that the theory of cooperation and competition is useful for identifying the social processes that help these teams grapple with problems and work effectively.
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Transactive memory system links work team characteristics and performance.
TL;DR: This study sampled 104 work teams from a variety of organizational settings in China and examined the relationships between team characteristics, TMS, and team performance, suggesting that task interdependence, cooperative goal interDependence, and support for innovation are positively related to work teams' TMS and TMS is related to team performance.
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Followership: The Theoretical Foundation of a Contemporary Construct
TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical foundation of followership is presented, and the words follower and followership are increasingly used in discussions of leadership and organizations, and many think that the f...
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Cooperation Theory and Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend cooperation theory to understand the dynamics between superiors and subordinates and the relationships among departments, and identify conditions that affect how organizational members perceive their goal interdependence.
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