| Author: | Peterson, R. S. |
| Title: | A directive leadership style in group decision making can be both virtue and vice: Evidence from elite and experimental groups |
| Journal: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1997 : MAY, VOL. 72:5, p. 1107-1121 |
| Index terms: | LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT STYLES GROUP DECISION MAKING GROUP DYNAMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the effects of leader directiveness in group decision making, by using the group dynamics Q-sort. Past research has implicated directive leaders as a cause of defective process and poor outcomes in group decision making. The paper decomposes leader directiveness into outcome directiveness and process directiveness which emerges as a potent predictor of quality of group process and outcomes. Outcome directiveness associates with a smaller and less coherent array of group outcomes. It seems that curent prescriptive models of decision making overemphasize the potential harmful effects of outcome directiveness. |
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