Investigation of the Relationship between Four Criteria of Leadership Ability for Three Different Tasks.

摘要

One purpose of this report is to describe the relationships found between four different criteria used in assessing the leadership potentialities of 100 high school senior men. A second purpose is to present some evidence regarding the relationship between leadership ability for three different types of work tasks. The four methods used for evaluating the subjects' leadership were as follows: first their leadership performance in a small leaderless group work task situation was observed; second, ratings of the boys' leadership ability for performing such tasks were obtained from high school supervisory personnel; third, the subjects were asked to nominate from their associates those who would best be able to lead groups in working on such tasks; and finally, an activity record was obtained for each subject's membership and leadership in all groups clubs, teams, societies, etc., both in and out of school. In each instance, except the last, the subject's potentialities were measured with respect to three different types of tasks-an intellectual task, a clerical task, and a mechanical task. p1.