Showing papers on "Leadership development published in 1985"

Building Supportive Ties and Sense of Community among the Inner-City Elderly: The Tenderloin Senior Outreach Project

Abstract: For the low-income elderly residents of America's single room occupancy (SRO) hotels, poor health, social isolation, and powerlessness often are intimately connected. This article presents a case study of an attempt to address these interrelated problems by fostering social support and social action organizing among elderly residents of San Francisco's Tenderloin hotels. Following a brief look at the parameters of the problem, an overview of the Tenderloin Senior Outreach Project (TSOP) is presented. The Project's theoretical base is described, followed by a brief account of TSOPs genesis and growth from an informal University-sponsored project to a privately incorporated community-based organization. Examples of individual and community empowerment through TSOP are presented, as is a look at some of the dilemmas and compro mises that are encountered as a community group trades its grassroots status for a more formal and bureaucratized structure. Problems in the areas of indigenous leadership development ...

Leadership Development: Its Importance in Programs for Gifted Youth

Abstract: Developing leadership skills among the nation's gifted young sters must be a part of their educational program, points out this writer, who explains here a variety of ways that it can be accom plished.

Does Leadership Development Intervene in the Relationship between Public Affairs Participation and Socioeconomic Status

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between change in public affairs participation and involvement in a leadership development program for young adults in Pennsylvania at high and low socioeconomic-status levels. In a comparison grouping, the association between change in public affairs participation and socioeconomic status is positive, as in many previous findings; but among those involved in the leadership development program, the association between change in public affairs participation and socioeconomic status is negative. Thus, leadership development mediates the familiar relationship between public affairs participation and socioeconomic background.

Analysis of Air Force Junior Aircraft Maintenance Officer Leadership Development

Abstract: : A random sample of 320 U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance officers (AMOs) was surveyed using the updated version of Yukl's Managerial Behavior Survey (MBS), to measure leader behavior of the AMO's superior officer, and other scales focusing on the AMO's perception of his/her own leadership development. Specific development methods used by AMOs and the perceived importance of each were explored. Furthermore, suggestions were collected on ways to improve development methods available to them in the Air Force. Leadership development was correlated with the superior's leader behavior and with demographic and organizational variables. The personal factor of rank was found to be associated with leadership development. Participation in eight of nineteen leadership activities correlated significantly with the degree of importance the AMO placed on the activities. Analysis of the MBS results indicated certain categories of superior officer leader behavior were significantly associated with the perceived leadership development of the AMO. Comments on improvements to the development methods available to junior AMOs were grouped and examined for common themes.