Understanding, predicting, and supporting leader self-development
By: Lisa A. Boyce, Michelle M. Wisecarver, Stephen J. Zaccaro.
Contributors: Wisecarver, Michelle M.; Zaccaro, Stephen J.; U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Series: ARI technical report -- 1173.; Technical report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) -- 1173.
Publisher: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Arlington, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Leadership.; Military education.
Description: "Systematic research was performed to better understand and support individual professional self-development.  Over 400 junior-military leaders participated in detailed longitudinal research to test a structural model of leader self-development.  Results provide a unifying framework for understanding the effects of individual characteristics on propensity for self-development.  The model depicts a person with a mastery, work, and career-growth orientation as more motivated to perform leader self-development and more skilled at performing instructional and self-regulatory processes and therefore more likely to perform leader self-development.  Further, results indicated that an organizational support tool moderated the actual performance of leader self-development activities.  The implications of the results for self-development theory and for leader self-development in the Army are discussed."--P.i.
Notes: Cover title.

"November 2005."

"Army project number 622785A790."

Includes bibiographical references (p. 29-36).

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Final; May 2002-May 2004.

Also available online.

Sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences 622785 A790 103.