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  title info:
    title: Environmental factors that impact leadership development
  name:
    name part: Vardiman, Phillip Dan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 124 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate leadership development from the perspective of how the environment in which a person exists supports or hinders his or her own development. Specific findings were found to address the four following research questions: 1. What factors should be included in the best environment for leadership to develop or emerge? 2. What are the leadership traits or characteristics common among good leaders that support leadership development? 3. Do adult learning styles and the environmental factors that impact leadership development have similar traits and characteristics? 4. What is the correlation between leadership development and the environmental factors that impact leadership development? The data was collected using a self-developed questionnaire to evaluate the impact key environmental factors and the areas of learning/education, environmental influences, constraints/enhances, and individual leadership development factors. It was administered to a population of 66 individuals from both business and educational organizations. The sample population included people in mid-management positions and those training to be mid-managers. Participants were asked to evaluate each question using a 5-point likert scale of strongly agrees to strongly disagrees and strongly support to strongly hinder based on the questionnaire sections. Comparisons were made between defined environmental factors and various leadership variables within the questionnaire. The research also studied the relationship between adult learning styles and the environmental factors that impact leadership development. The findings revealed that open communication from management, having well-defined expectations, support from others, and recognition for work well done were some of the most supportive factors for developing leadership. The best leaders have good organizational communication, can be trusted, and see leadership development as a life long process. The adult learn…
  note: by Phillip Dan Vardiman.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-100).
  subject:
    topic: Major educational human resource development
  identifier: 30-33895 UMI
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