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2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Intrinsic Factors Affecting the Job Performance
of Military Leaders
A study of Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Theory The Five Factor Model
And Goal Orientation
Landen M Ellyson
Indiana Wesleyan University Marion Indiana USA(567) 231-6108
Justin H Gibson
Indiana Wesleyan University Marion Indiana USA(734) 272-9106
Michael Nichols
Indiana Wesleyan University Marion Indiana USA(517) 759-8254
Shawn M Carraher
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Intrinsic Factors Affecting the Job Performance of Military Leaders
ABSTRACT
Purpose ndash This study examines the difference between interpersonal and task oriented leadership
in the military The paper seeks to explain how personality and goal orientation affect these two
styles of leadership and improve job performance
Designmethodologyapproach ndash The study collected data from 869 soldiers comprised of
enlisted personnel and officers All participants were in the age range of 18 to 55 years old The
research was gathered from the United States Military during peacetime efforts The instruments
used for data analysis were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership the Least Preferred
Coworker Scale (LPC) Goal Orientation and the Five Factor Model (FFM)
Findings ndash Findings concluded that goal orientation and the personality trait of
conscientiousness significantly influenced the job performance of military leaders Both of the
influencing factors are characteristics found in task-oriented leaders The low LPC scores
recorded in the data substantially add to this conclusion
Research limitationsimplications ndash Research was administered only during a peacetime
environment limiting the scope of certain aspects affecting military job performance
Originalityvalue ndash The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is
directly related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations Psychologists may also contribute
from the value added by this study in the analysis of FFM Goal-Orientation and Fred Fiedlerrsquos
Contingency Theory
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PURPOSE
This study examines the difference between interpersonal and task oriented leadership in
the military The paper seeks to explain how personality and goal orientation affect these two
styles of leadership and improve job performance The Five Factor Model (FFM) Fiedlerrsquos
Contingency Theory and Goal Orientation will be analyzed within the data gathered from
military personnel
Since the 1960s researchers have conducted studies to determine whether there is any
relationship between personality and leadership They based their studies on the Five Factor
Model consisting of conscientiousness agreeableness neuroticism openness and extraversion
(Bligh 2009) DeRue Barnes amp Morgeson discussed recentmeta-analysis that proves there is a
multiple correlation of 39 between the FFM traits and leadership (as cited in Judge Bono Ilies
amp Werner 2002) More specifically this studyrsquos data analysis will uncover how the FFM
specifically correlates with task-oriented leadership
Fiedlers Contingency Theory (Fiedler 1971b 1978) implies that the effectiveness of
leadership is a function of the interactions between the leader and the leadership situation
(Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985) The purpose of the contingency theory in this study is to
analyze the data relating to the Least Preferred Co-Worker (LPC) scale and determine how it
relates to the job performance of task-oriented leaders versus relationship-oriented leaders By
studying the correlation between the two different orientations of leadership and our data
collection we hope to narrow down why LPC favors one leadership style over the other
This study will look at the intrinsic value of goal orientation and how it affects the job
performance of leaders Scriffignano wrote that the results of previous research suggested goal
orientation can influence an individualrsquos approach and success in achieving goals (as cited in
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 3
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Carson Mosley amp Boyar 2004) A better understanding of the role that goal orientation plays
on leadership could prove the advantages of task-oriented leaders
LITERATURE REWVIEW
The United States Military has been always been on the forefront of developing quality
leaders and has been the testing ground for many different leadership theoriesMilitary
leadership is defined as influencing people by providing purpose direction and motivation
while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization (Headquarters
Department of the Army 2007) Military leaders operate in fast paced work environment that is
fraught with complexity The military is constantly changing whether it be their tactics
operational strategy training exercises weapons technology policies or leadership theories
These changes increase the level complexity in a commanderrsquos task at all levels and multiply the
challenges faced by military leaders (Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E 2000)
The way in which performance within the military can be observed is often very
challenging due to multi-faceted responsibilities that are placed upon military leaders Different
wars and international operations have proved that the context in which leadership takes place
can drastically change the expectations of leadership-behavior and its perception by subordinates
and the leaders themselves (Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ 2010) Military leadership is
dynamic in its nature and it may be necessary to clearly define leadership in its different contexts
in order to be able to truly evaluate a leaders effectiveness (Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D
2003)
Rozčenkova and Dimdiņš (2010) used 203 members of international militaries in conflict
environments in order to define the relationship between self-reported transformational
leadership and social identification in the military Striving to prove a difference in self-reported
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leadership behavior among officers non-commissioned officers and privates they conduct a
multivariate analysis of variance with the levels of hierarchy and the memberrsquos nationality as
independent variables They also used the subscales of self-reported leadership behavior as
dependent variables Through Rozčenkova and Dimdiņšrsquo research it was partially confirmed
that higher-ranking officers would report more transformational leadership behavior than lower
ranking officers and soldiers would These findings are in concurrence with previous research
conducted by Kane and Tremble (2000) who also found differences in transformational
leadership between different organizational levels
Utecht and Heier (1976) studied a group of 479 officers out of a total population of 744
They hypothesized that according to Fred Fiedlerrsquos contingency model that military leaders
primarily have attained their success by holding positions that cater towards their leadership
style Leader-member relations task structure and leader position power were used as situational
variables to determine whether a group is favorable or unfavorable to a leader The null
hypothesis of this study was accepted and it was concluded that the success of military leaders is
not primarily because they are placed in positions that cater towards their leadership style
Fiedlerrsquos contingency model failed to accurately predict successful leaders which poses the
question what factors can be used to predict successful military leadership
Kell et al (2010) investigated 13 volunteer subject matter experts(SMEs) and 11 human
factors professionals (HFP) SMEs to findassociations between Big Five expressions and
behavioral effectiveness judgments in the context of job performance Motowidlo (2003) defines
job performance asldquothe value to the organization of a workerrsquos behaviors that are performed
while on the jobrdquoThrough their research Kell et al found that for both HFP and volunteer jobs
Openness and Agreeableness had more of an effect in interpersonal situations while Expressions
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of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability had more effectiveness in task oriented situations
These findings strongly implicate that certain job characteristics effect the correlation between
behavioral trait expressions and ratings in job performance
Brown and ODonnell (2011) studied 438 undergraduate seniors enrolled in a Strategic
Management capstone course to find if learning goal orientation combined with the Big Five in
any way has a direct correlation to job performance They measured conscientiousness
neuroticism learning goal orientation proactive personality and effort A total of six
hypothesisrsquos were analyzed and hypothesis 1 and 2 solidified research done in the past by
proving that Conscientiousness positively related to learning goal orientation while neuroticism
had a negative relationship
DESIGNMETHODOLOGYAPPROACH
The present study surveyed 869 soldiers from the United States Military (461 men 383
women 25 missing in the system) Their ages range from 18 ndash 55 with the mean age being 21
The surveyed individuals included enlisted military personnel as well as officers Results of this
research where gathered in a peacetime environment
The primary instruments used were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership
more specifically the Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) as well as Goal Orientation and the
Five Factor Model (FFM) which consists of extraversion openness conscientiousness
agreeableness and emotional stability The data analyzes each of these different areas in order to
show what effect goal orientation and the FFM have on job performance within the military
FINDINGS
The average standard coefficient beta for Goal Orientation LPC and FFM is 071 with 4
of the 7 having a negative effect on the dependent variable job performance Conscientiousness
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has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
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1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
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Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
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Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
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a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
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ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
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The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
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would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
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construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
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development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
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Intrinsic Factors Affecting the Job Performance of Military Leaders
ABSTRACT
Purpose ndash This study examines the difference between interpersonal and task oriented leadership
in the military The paper seeks to explain how personality and goal orientation affect these two
styles of leadership and improve job performance
Designmethodologyapproach ndash The study collected data from 869 soldiers comprised of
enlisted personnel and officers All participants were in the age range of 18 to 55 years old The
research was gathered from the United States Military during peacetime efforts The instruments
used for data analysis were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership the Least Preferred
Coworker Scale (LPC) Goal Orientation and the Five Factor Model (FFM)
Findings ndash Findings concluded that goal orientation and the personality trait of
conscientiousness significantly influenced the job performance of military leaders Both of the
influencing factors are characteristics found in task-oriented leaders The low LPC scores
recorded in the data substantially add to this conclusion
Research limitationsimplications ndash Research was administered only during a peacetime
environment limiting the scope of certain aspects affecting military job performance
Originalityvalue ndash The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is
directly related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations Psychologists may also contribute
from the value added by this study in the analysis of FFM Goal-Orientation and Fred Fiedlerrsquos
Contingency Theory
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2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
PURPOSE
This study examines the difference between interpersonal and task oriented leadership in
the military The paper seeks to explain how personality and goal orientation affect these two
styles of leadership and improve job performance The Five Factor Model (FFM) Fiedlerrsquos
Contingency Theory and Goal Orientation will be analyzed within the data gathered from
military personnel
Since the 1960s researchers have conducted studies to determine whether there is any
relationship between personality and leadership They based their studies on the Five Factor
Model consisting of conscientiousness agreeableness neuroticism openness and extraversion
(Bligh 2009) DeRue Barnes amp Morgeson discussed recentmeta-analysis that proves there is a
multiple correlation of 39 between the FFM traits and leadership (as cited in Judge Bono Ilies
amp Werner 2002) More specifically this studyrsquos data analysis will uncover how the FFM
specifically correlates with task-oriented leadership
Fiedlers Contingency Theory (Fiedler 1971b 1978) implies that the effectiveness of
leadership is a function of the interactions between the leader and the leadership situation
(Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985) The purpose of the contingency theory in this study is to
analyze the data relating to the Least Preferred Co-Worker (LPC) scale and determine how it
relates to the job performance of task-oriented leaders versus relationship-oriented leaders By
studying the correlation between the two different orientations of leadership and our data
collection we hope to narrow down why LPC favors one leadership style over the other
This study will look at the intrinsic value of goal orientation and how it affects the job
performance of leaders Scriffignano wrote that the results of previous research suggested goal
orientation can influence an individualrsquos approach and success in achieving goals (as cited in
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 3
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Carson Mosley amp Boyar 2004) A better understanding of the role that goal orientation plays
on leadership could prove the advantages of task-oriented leaders
LITERATURE REWVIEW
The United States Military has been always been on the forefront of developing quality
leaders and has been the testing ground for many different leadership theoriesMilitary
leadership is defined as influencing people by providing purpose direction and motivation
while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization (Headquarters
Department of the Army 2007) Military leaders operate in fast paced work environment that is
fraught with complexity The military is constantly changing whether it be their tactics
operational strategy training exercises weapons technology policies or leadership theories
These changes increase the level complexity in a commanderrsquos task at all levels and multiply the
challenges faced by military leaders (Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E 2000)
The way in which performance within the military can be observed is often very
challenging due to multi-faceted responsibilities that are placed upon military leaders Different
wars and international operations have proved that the context in which leadership takes place
can drastically change the expectations of leadership-behavior and its perception by subordinates
and the leaders themselves (Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ 2010) Military leadership is
dynamic in its nature and it may be necessary to clearly define leadership in its different contexts
in order to be able to truly evaluate a leaders effectiveness (Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D
2003)
Rozčenkova and Dimdiņš (2010) used 203 members of international militaries in conflict
environments in order to define the relationship between self-reported transformational
leadership and social identification in the military Striving to prove a difference in self-reported
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 4
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
leadership behavior among officers non-commissioned officers and privates they conduct a
multivariate analysis of variance with the levels of hierarchy and the memberrsquos nationality as
independent variables They also used the subscales of self-reported leadership behavior as
dependent variables Through Rozčenkova and Dimdiņšrsquo research it was partially confirmed
that higher-ranking officers would report more transformational leadership behavior than lower
ranking officers and soldiers would These findings are in concurrence with previous research
conducted by Kane and Tremble (2000) who also found differences in transformational
leadership between different organizational levels
Utecht and Heier (1976) studied a group of 479 officers out of a total population of 744
They hypothesized that according to Fred Fiedlerrsquos contingency model that military leaders
primarily have attained their success by holding positions that cater towards their leadership
style Leader-member relations task structure and leader position power were used as situational
variables to determine whether a group is favorable or unfavorable to a leader The null
hypothesis of this study was accepted and it was concluded that the success of military leaders is
not primarily because they are placed in positions that cater towards their leadership style
Fiedlerrsquos contingency model failed to accurately predict successful leaders which poses the
question what factors can be used to predict successful military leadership
Kell et al (2010) investigated 13 volunteer subject matter experts(SMEs) and 11 human
factors professionals (HFP) SMEs to findassociations between Big Five expressions and
behavioral effectiveness judgments in the context of job performance Motowidlo (2003) defines
job performance asldquothe value to the organization of a workerrsquos behaviors that are performed
while on the jobrdquoThrough their research Kell et al found that for both HFP and volunteer jobs
Openness and Agreeableness had more of an effect in interpersonal situations while Expressions
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 5
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability had more effectiveness in task oriented situations
These findings strongly implicate that certain job characteristics effect the correlation between
behavioral trait expressions and ratings in job performance
Brown and ODonnell (2011) studied 438 undergraduate seniors enrolled in a Strategic
Management capstone course to find if learning goal orientation combined with the Big Five in
any way has a direct correlation to job performance They measured conscientiousness
neuroticism learning goal orientation proactive personality and effort A total of six
hypothesisrsquos were analyzed and hypothesis 1 and 2 solidified research done in the past by
proving that Conscientiousness positively related to learning goal orientation while neuroticism
had a negative relationship
DESIGNMETHODOLOGYAPPROACH
The present study surveyed 869 soldiers from the United States Military (461 men 383
women 25 missing in the system) Their ages range from 18 ndash 55 with the mean age being 21
The surveyed individuals included enlisted military personnel as well as officers Results of this
research where gathered in a peacetime environment
The primary instruments used were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership
more specifically the Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) as well as Goal Orientation and the
Five Factor Model (FFM) which consists of extraversion openness conscientiousness
agreeableness and emotional stability The data analyzes each of these different areas in order to
show what effect goal orientation and the FFM have on job performance within the military
FINDINGS
The average standard coefficient beta for Goal Orientation LPC and FFM is 071 with 4
of the 7 having a negative effect on the dependent variable job performance Conscientiousness
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has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
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1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
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Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
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Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
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a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
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ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
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The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
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would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
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construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
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development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
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Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
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678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
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Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
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PURPOSE
This study examines the difference between interpersonal and task oriented leadership in
the military The paper seeks to explain how personality and goal orientation affect these two
styles of leadership and improve job performance The Five Factor Model (FFM) Fiedlerrsquos
Contingency Theory and Goal Orientation will be analyzed within the data gathered from
military personnel
Since the 1960s researchers have conducted studies to determine whether there is any
relationship between personality and leadership They based their studies on the Five Factor
Model consisting of conscientiousness agreeableness neuroticism openness and extraversion
(Bligh 2009) DeRue Barnes amp Morgeson discussed recentmeta-analysis that proves there is a
multiple correlation of 39 between the FFM traits and leadership (as cited in Judge Bono Ilies
amp Werner 2002) More specifically this studyrsquos data analysis will uncover how the FFM
specifically correlates with task-oriented leadership
Fiedlers Contingency Theory (Fiedler 1971b 1978) implies that the effectiveness of
leadership is a function of the interactions between the leader and the leadership situation
(Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985) The purpose of the contingency theory in this study is to
analyze the data relating to the Least Preferred Co-Worker (LPC) scale and determine how it
relates to the job performance of task-oriented leaders versus relationship-oriented leaders By
studying the correlation between the two different orientations of leadership and our data
collection we hope to narrow down why LPC favors one leadership style over the other
This study will look at the intrinsic value of goal orientation and how it affects the job
performance of leaders Scriffignano wrote that the results of previous research suggested goal
orientation can influence an individualrsquos approach and success in achieving goals (as cited in
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Carson Mosley amp Boyar 2004) A better understanding of the role that goal orientation plays
on leadership could prove the advantages of task-oriented leaders
LITERATURE REWVIEW
The United States Military has been always been on the forefront of developing quality
leaders and has been the testing ground for many different leadership theoriesMilitary
leadership is defined as influencing people by providing purpose direction and motivation
while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization (Headquarters
Department of the Army 2007) Military leaders operate in fast paced work environment that is
fraught with complexity The military is constantly changing whether it be their tactics
operational strategy training exercises weapons technology policies or leadership theories
These changes increase the level complexity in a commanderrsquos task at all levels and multiply the
challenges faced by military leaders (Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E 2000)
The way in which performance within the military can be observed is often very
challenging due to multi-faceted responsibilities that are placed upon military leaders Different
wars and international operations have proved that the context in which leadership takes place
can drastically change the expectations of leadership-behavior and its perception by subordinates
and the leaders themselves (Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ 2010) Military leadership is
dynamic in its nature and it may be necessary to clearly define leadership in its different contexts
in order to be able to truly evaluate a leaders effectiveness (Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D
2003)
Rozčenkova and Dimdiņš (2010) used 203 members of international militaries in conflict
environments in order to define the relationship between self-reported transformational
leadership and social identification in the military Striving to prove a difference in self-reported
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leadership behavior among officers non-commissioned officers and privates they conduct a
multivariate analysis of variance with the levels of hierarchy and the memberrsquos nationality as
independent variables They also used the subscales of self-reported leadership behavior as
dependent variables Through Rozčenkova and Dimdiņšrsquo research it was partially confirmed
that higher-ranking officers would report more transformational leadership behavior than lower
ranking officers and soldiers would These findings are in concurrence with previous research
conducted by Kane and Tremble (2000) who also found differences in transformational
leadership between different organizational levels
Utecht and Heier (1976) studied a group of 479 officers out of a total population of 744
They hypothesized that according to Fred Fiedlerrsquos contingency model that military leaders
primarily have attained their success by holding positions that cater towards their leadership
style Leader-member relations task structure and leader position power were used as situational
variables to determine whether a group is favorable or unfavorable to a leader The null
hypothesis of this study was accepted and it was concluded that the success of military leaders is
not primarily because they are placed in positions that cater towards their leadership style
Fiedlerrsquos contingency model failed to accurately predict successful leaders which poses the
question what factors can be used to predict successful military leadership
Kell et al (2010) investigated 13 volunteer subject matter experts(SMEs) and 11 human
factors professionals (HFP) SMEs to findassociations between Big Five expressions and
behavioral effectiveness judgments in the context of job performance Motowidlo (2003) defines
job performance asldquothe value to the organization of a workerrsquos behaviors that are performed
while on the jobrdquoThrough their research Kell et al found that for both HFP and volunteer jobs
Openness and Agreeableness had more of an effect in interpersonal situations while Expressions
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of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability had more effectiveness in task oriented situations
These findings strongly implicate that certain job characteristics effect the correlation between
behavioral trait expressions and ratings in job performance
Brown and ODonnell (2011) studied 438 undergraduate seniors enrolled in a Strategic
Management capstone course to find if learning goal orientation combined with the Big Five in
any way has a direct correlation to job performance They measured conscientiousness
neuroticism learning goal orientation proactive personality and effort A total of six
hypothesisrsquos were analyzed and hypothesis 1 and 2 solidified research done in the past by
proving that Conscientiousness positively related to learning goal orientation while neuroticism
had a negative relationship
DESIGNMETHODOLOGYAPPROACH
The present study surveyed 869 soldiers from the United States Military (461 men 383
women 25 missing in the system) Their ages range from 18 ndash 55 with the mean age being 21
The surveyed individuals included enlisted military personnel as well as officers Results of this
research where gathered in a peacetime environment
The primary instruments used were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership
more specifically the Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) as well as Goal Orientation and the
Five Factor Model (FFM) which consists of extraversion openness conscientiousness
agreeableness and emotional stability The data analyzes each of these different areas in order to
show what effect goal orientation and the FFM have on job performance within the military
FINDINGS
The average standard coefficient beta for Goal Orientation LPC and FFM is 071 with 4
of the 7 having a negative effect on the dependent variable job performance Conscientiousness
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has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 7
1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
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Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 8
Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
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a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
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ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
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The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
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would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Carson Mosley amp Boyar 2004) A better understanding of the role that goal orientation plays
on leadership could prove the advantages of task-oriented leaders
LITERATURE REWVIEW
The United States Military has been always been on the forefront of developing quality
leaders and has been the testing ground for many different leadership theoriesMilitary
leadership is defined as influencing people by providing purpose direction and motivation
while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization (Headquarters
Department of the Army 2007) Military leaders operate in fast paced work environment that is
fraught with complexity The military is constantly changing whether it be their tactics
operational strategy training exercises weapons technology policies or leadership theories
These changes increase the level complexity in a commanderrsquos task at all levels and multiply the
challenges faced by military leaders (Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E 2000)
The way in which performance within the military can be observed is often very
challenging due to multi-faceted responsibilities that are placed upon military leaders Different
wars and international operations have proved that the context in which leadership takes place
can drastically change the expectations of leadership-behavior and its perception by subordinates
and the leaders themselves (Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ 2010) Military leadership is
dynamic in its nature and it may be necessary to clearly define leadership in its different contexts
in order to be able to truly evaluate a leaders effectiveness (Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D
2003)
Rozčenkova and Dimdiņš (2010) used 203 members of international militaries in conflict
environments in order to define the relationship between self-reported transformational
leadership and social identification in the military Striving to prove a difference in self-reported
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leadership behavior among officers non-commissioned officers and privates they conduct a
multivariate analysis of variance with the levels of hierarchy and the memberrsquos nationality as
independent variables They also used the subscales of self-reported leadership behavior as
dependent variables Through Rozčenkova and Dimdiņšrsquo research it was partially confirmed
that higher-ranking officers would report more transformational leadership behavior than lower
ranking officers and soldiers would These findings are in concurrence with previous research
conducted by Kane and Tremble (2000) who also found differences in transformational
leadership between different organizational levels
Utecht and Heier (1976) studied a group of 479 officers out of a total population of 744
They hypothesized that according to Fred Fiedlerrsquos contingency model that military leaders
primarily have attained their success by holding positions that cater towards their leadership
style Leader-member relations task structure and leader position power were used as situational
variables to determine whether a group is favorable or unfavorable to a leader The null
hypothesis of this study was accepted and it was concluded that the success of military leaders is
not primarily because they are placed in positions that cater towards their leadership style
Fiedlerrsquos contingency model failed to accurately predict successful leaders which poses the
question what factors can be used to predict successful military leadership
Kell et al (2010) investigated 13 volunteer subject matter experts(SMEs) and 11 human
factors professionals (HFP) SMEs to findassociations between Big Five expressions and
behavioral effectiveness judgments in the context of job performance Motowidlo (2003) defines
job performance asldquothe value to the organization of a workerrsquos behaviors that are performed
while on the jobrdquoThrough their research Kell et al found that for both HFP and volunteer jobs
Openness and Agreeableness had more of an effect in interpersonal situations while Expressions
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 5
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of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability had more effectiveness in task oriented situations
These findings strongly implicate that certain job characteristics effect the correlation between
behavioral trait expressions and ratings in job performance
Brown and ODonnell (2011) studied 438 undergraduate seniors enrolled in a Strategic
Management capstone course to find if learning goal orientation combined with the Big Five in
any way has a direct correlation to job performance They measured conscientiousness
neuroticism learning goal orientation proactive personality and effort A total of six
hypothesisrsquos were analyzed and hypothesis 1 and 2 solidified research done in the past by
proving that Conscientiousness positively related to learning goal orientation while neuroticism
had a negative relationship
DESIGNMETHODOLOGYAPPROACH
The present study surveyed 869 soldiers from the United States Military (461 men 383
women 25 missing in the system) Their ages range from 18 ndash 55 with the mean age being 21
The surveyed individuals included enlisted military personnel as well as officers Results of this
research where gathered in a peacetime environment
The primary instruments used were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership
more specifically the Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) as well as Goal Orientation and the
Five Factor Model (FFM) which consists of extraversion openness conscientiousness
agreeableness and emotional stability The data analyzes each of these different areas in order to
show what effect goal orientation and the FFM have on job performance within the military
FINDINGS
The average standard coefficient beta for Goal Orientation LPC and FFM is 071 with 4
of the 7 having a negative effect on the dependent variable job performance Conscientiousness
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has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
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1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
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Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
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Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
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a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
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ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
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The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
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would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
leadership behavior among officers non-commissioned officers and privates they conduct a
multivariate analysis of variance with the levels of hierarchy and the memberrsquos nationality as
independent variables They also used the subscales of self-reported leadership behavior as
dependent variables Through Rozčenkova and Dimdiņšrsquo research it was partially confirmed
that higher-ranking officers would report more transformational leadership behavior than lower
ranking officers and soldiers would These findings are in concurrence with previous research
conducted by Kane and Tremble (2000) who also found differences in transformational
leadership between different organizational levels
Utecht and Heier (1976) studied a group of 479 officers out of a total population of 744
They hypothesized that according to Fred Fiedlerrsquos contingency model that military leaders
primarily have attained their success by holding positions that cater towards their leadership
style Leader-member relations task structure and leader position power were used as situational
variables to determine whether a group is favorable or unfavorable to a leader The null
hypothesis of this study was accepted and it was concluded that the success of military leaders is
not primarily because they are placed in positions that cater towards their leadership style
Fiedlerrsquos contingency model failed to accurately predict successful leaders which poses the
question what factors can be used to predict successful military leadership
Kell et al (2010) investigated 13 volunteer subject matter experts(SMEs) and 11 human
factors professionals (HFP) SMEs to findassociations between Big Five expressions and
behavioral effectiveness judgments in the context of job performance Motowidlo (2003) defines
job performance asldquothe value to the organization of a workerrsquos behaviors that are performed
while on the jobrdquoThrough their research Kell et al found that for both HFP and volunteer jobs
Openness and Agreeableness had more of an effect in interpersonal situations while Expressions
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 5
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability had more effectiveness in task oriented situations
These findings strongly implicate that certain job characteristics effect the correlation between
behavioral trait expressions and ratings in job performance
Brown and ODonnell (2011) studied 438 undergraduate seniors enrolled in a Strategic
Management capstone course to find if learning goal orientation combined with the Big Five in
any way has a direct correlation to job performance They measured conscientiousness
neuroticism learning goal orientation proactive personality and effort A total of six
hypothesisrsquos were analyzed and hypothesis 1 and 2 solidified research done in the past by
proving that Conscientiousness positively related to learning goal orientation while neuroticism
had a negative relationship
DESIGNMETHODOLOGYAPPROACH
The present study surveyed 869 soldiers from the United States Military (461 men 383
women 25 missing in the system) Their ages range from 18 ndash 55 with the mean age being 21
The surveyed individuals included enlisted military personnel as well as officers Results of this
research where gathered in a peacetime environment
The primary instruments used were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership
more specifically the Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) as well as Goal Orientation and the
Five Factor Model (FFM) which consists of extraversion openness conscientiousness
agreeableness and emotional stability The data analyzes each of these different areas in order to
show what effect goal orientation and the FFM have on job performance within the military
FINDINGS
The average standard coefficient beta for Goal Orientation LPC and FFM is 071 with 4
of the 7 having a negative effect on the dependent variable job performance Conscientiousness
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2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 7
1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 8
Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 9
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 10
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
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of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability had more effectiveness in task oriented situations
These findings strongly implicate that certain job characteristics effect the correlation between
behavioral trait expressions and ratings in job performance
Brown and ODonnell (2011) studied 438 undergraduate seniors enrolled in a Strategic
Management capstone course to find if learning goal orientation combined with the Big Five in
any way has a direct correlation to job performance They measured conscientiousness
neuroticism learning goal orientation proactive personality and effort A total of six
hypothesisrsquos were analyzed and hypothesis 1 and 2 solidified research done in the past by
proving that Conscientiousness positively related to learning goal orientation while neuroticism
had a negative relationship
DESIGNMETHODOLOGYAPPROACH
The present study surveyed 869 soldiers from the United States Military (461 men 383
women 25 missing in the system) Their ages range from 18 ndash 55 with the mean age being 21
The surveyed individuals included enlisted military personnel as well as officers Results of this
research where gathered in a peacetime environment
The primary instruments used were Fred Fiedlerrsquos Contingency Model of Leadership
more specifically the Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) as well as Goal Orientation and the
Five Factor Model (FFM) which consists of extraversion openness conscientiousness
agreeableness and emotional stability The data analyzes each of these different areas in order to
show what effect goal orientation and the FFM have on job performance within the military
FINDINGS
The average standard coefficient beta for Goal Orientation LPC and FFM is 071 with 4
of the 7 having a negative effect on the dependent variable job performance Conscientiousness
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has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 7
1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
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Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 8
Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 9
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 10
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
has the greatest effect on job performance in the military with a 441 standard coefficient beta It
is a trait that is proven to be more effective in work-related task situations which could be
explained by the fact that task situations are more relevant to the expression of conscientiousness
than the other traits (Kell Rittmayer Crook amp Motowidlo 2010)
1 =
Male 2 = Females
Results are from a peacetime environment
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 7
1 Population
Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulative
PercentValid 1 461 530 546 546
2 383 441 454 1000Missing System 25 29Total 869 971 1000
2 Descriptive Statistics
N Minimum Maximum Mean Std Deviationage 810 18 55 2109 4807Valid N (listwise) 810
3 ANOVAb
Model Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig1 Regression 84468 7 12067 100538 000a
Residual 51850 432 120Total 136318 439
a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1b Dependent Variable perform
4 Model Summary
Model R R Square Adjusted R SquareStd Error of the Estimate
1 787a 620 613 34644a Predictors (Constant) REGR FACTOR SCORE 5 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 4 FOR ANALYSIS 1 lpctot REGR FACTOR SCORE 3 FOR ANALYSIS 1 REGR FACTOR SCORE 2 FOR ANALYSIS 1 goalor REGR FACTOR SCORE 1 FOR ANALYSIS 1
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 8
Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 9
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 10
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Another reason that conscientiousness correlates more directly to positive job
performance is that as an individual gets older Conscientiousness continuously increases in
rank-order stability whereas the other traits Extraversion (-079) Openness (-045)
Agreeableness (-110) and Emotional stability (-006) reach a peak before digressing in rank-
order stability (Specht Schmukle amp Egloff 2011) This means that over time individuals tend to
become more conscientious which in return increases the significance it has on onersquos job
performance
A study done by Kell RittmayerCrook amp Motowidlo 2010 showed that
Conscientiousness and emotional stability prove to be effective in task oriented leadership styles
For the purpose of this study emotional stability will be not be acknowledged as it does not hold
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 8
Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t SigB Std Error Beta1 (Constant) 2649 138 19140 000
goalor 362 035 398 10304 000
lpctot 002 001 109 3599 000
Extraversion -079 021 -149 -3846 000
Openness to Experience
-045 015 -093 -2988 003
Conscientiousness 219 020 441 10928 000
Agreeableness -110 017 -197 -6453 000
Emotional Stability -006 014 -014 -439 661
a Dependent Variable perform
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 9
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 10
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
a proper amount of significance in the data This lack of significance can be explained by the fact
the military has strong restrictions on who they recruit Individuals who are emotionally unstable
are usually weeded out during the recruiting process
The United States Military has sought after and nurtured proactive people who are goal
oriented ever since the military began A proactive person is someone who takes personal
initiative to be influential no matter what the situation is They display initiative set goals push
through improvise and overcome all obstacles (Bateman amp Crant 1993) These types of leaders
are known for exceptional job performance and that explains why goal orientation has a strong
correlation with a standard coefficient beta of 398 Leaderswho set goals where they see
themselves as able to progress successfully or as more of an asset instead where they see
themselves as stuck or unimportant will be much more effective (Hannah amp Avolio 2010)It has
been discovered that conscientiousness is positively related to onersquos desire to learn goal
orientation while emotional stability was found to be negatively related (Colquitt LePine amp
Noe 2000)
The LPC holds a standard coefficient beta of 109 which seems to play less of an affect
on job performance than Conscientiousness or Goal Orientation However both
Conscientiousness and Goal Orientation relate heavily to task oriented leadership Task oriented
leaders receive low scores on the LPC Those low scores translate into a smaller standard
coefficient beta in this data set A smaller standard coefficient beta for the LPC proves that traits
that pertain to task oriented leadership improve job performance more so than interpersonal
leadership traits because if interpersonal leadership traits where more important to job
performance they would score higher on the LPC thus causing it to have a higher standard
coefficient
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 9
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 10
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
ORIGNINALITYVALUECONTRIBUTION
The recent study is original due to its attempt to show that Fiedlers LPC is directly
related to certain dimensions of the FFM The study also reveals that the FFM trait of
Conscientiousness connected with a strong emphasis on Goal-Orientation is the strongest
determinant of a successful leader in military operations In his doctorate dissertation for the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dr Keith Alan Francoeur conducted a study on the
relationship between the FFM and preferred leadership styles in initiating structure He
concluded that Conscientiousness was positively correlated to initiating structure (2008) which
is a component vital to military leadership
As well as tying together multiple personality theories the wide variety of test subjects
adds further validity to the FFM and LPC The test subjects consisted of peacetime armed service
members serving across all military branches and across a wide variety of military occupational
specialties and LPC task structures Despite the diversity of the test population
Conscientiousness and Goal-Orientation was consistently rated higher than all other personality
and leadership traits This only adds credibility to the FFM and also reveals that leaders rated
most highly in the area of performance tend to display traits consistent with a low LPC score
The data collected from the study also reveals a unique perspective as it relates to the
FFM Since the military does not recruit emotionally unstable individuals into the armed forces
the FFM trait of Emotional Stability can be disregarded since it is irrelevant to this test group
This allows the data to provide more accurate results on the differentiating traits of successful
military leadership Therefore the absence of the Emotional Stability factor only provides a
clearer understanding of which FFM traits are present in successful military leaders
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 10
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
The study contributed to the field of psychology in regards to Goal-Orientation FFM
and the LPC By collecting data from a wide population of armed service members we were able
to see that high performing military leaders had certain traits in common By analyzing the data
we determined that these successful leaders were Goal-Oriented and held traits consistent with
the Conscientiousness trait of the FFM We also noticed that these traits from the FFM are
consistent with a low LPC score Therefore we concluded that the highest performing leaders in
the United States military are task-oriented
DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Utecht and Heier used the Contingency Model to study whether or not the successfulness
of military leaders could be directly related to their positions being complimentary to their
leadership styles The two researchers found that the Contingency Model was no better than
pure chance at predicting successful military leaders (Utecht Heier 1976) There are varying
degrees of situational favorableness that are identified by dissecting the LPC They are
dichotomized into three different factors (leader-member relations task structure and position
power) that make up eight specific leadership situations (Peters Hartke amp Pohlmann 1985)
One of Utecht and Heierrsquos main points was that position power should not always be used as a
variable depending on the situation
Their research should not lead to the belief that contingency model is not a practical tool
Fiedler would not have spent significant time developing the theory if there was no solid basis
Furthermore other studies have proven the model effective in different settings However there
is a need to create a new model that is more accurate After analyzing our results we predict that
if FFM and Goal-Orientation were used coherently to create a new model the resulting tool
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 11
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
would have the ability to effectively predict successful leaders in both military and non-military
organizations
Future research would gain from additional data sets and performance measurements From the
results of the data it is noteworthy to observe the relationship between task oriented leadership
and performance Similar future studies could focus on the comparison wartime and peacetime
military personnel as well as other population factors We were limited to gathering data from
soldiers in the United States Military in a peacetime environment It would be suggested to
gather data from several different militaries in both peacetime and wartime settings For
example future sample sizes could be segregated by amount of time served deployment
location military rank military occupation active duty status or reservist status Also it would
be beneficial to incorporate other variables such as expanded personality factors or locusrsquos of
control This would give researchers the most well rounded data This information would benefit
militaries and researchers alike by being helping determine and suggest how leaders should adapt
from environment to environment and when working on a global platform with foreign
militaries Still the scope of future research is not limited only to the military
Perhaps the most interesting research would come from examining the effects of task
oriented leadership goal orientation and conscientiousness on performance in environments
with structured tasks and poor leader-member relations environments that generally call for
leaders with a high LPC score (Fiedler 1968) By testing these areas current conceptions of
certain work environments could successfully be challenged
In regards to future research the relationship between these three variables should be examined
in other industries and environments It would be beneficial to run similar studies in
environments traditionally associated with an emphasis on task oriented leadership areas such as
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 12
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
construction information technology (Petrides 2000) and engineering Still there are other
areas for potential research as well
As an example in the area of customer service it has been determined that transactional
or transformational leadership has no effect on the quality of customer service (Gerhardt 2006)
However potential research could be conducted on the effects of goal orientation and the FFM
in customer other service Besides customer service there are many other business environments
commonly thought to be congruent with a relational leadership style in which the FFM task
oriented leadership and goal orientation could be tested
CONCLUSION
In conclusion there are numerous issues involved in defining successful military
leadership and the extent that certain leadership styles have on job performance The vast amount
of responsibilities combined with the complexity of military operations make it difficult to
clearly predict with absoluteness a specific leadership theory that encompasses all possible
scenarios Although further investigation within this field of research is clearly necessary this
paper contributes in that it shows decidedly that Conscientiousness and Learning Goal
Orientation play a large part in successful job performance It is essential that as the military
trains leaders to function in highly volatile and fast paced environment that they indoctrinate
Conscientiousness and Learning Goal Orientation into the core of their leadership development
The instrument used in this paper can also make a contribution into future research into
developing a leadership theory that takes into account the vast amount of performance measures
that define successful military leadership We recommend that additional research be done on the
various aspects that make up job performance within military leadership in hopes of the
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 13
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
development of a multi-functioning leadership theory that can predict successful leaders in an
environment that contains so many variants
Resources
Bateman T S amp Crant J M (1993) The proactive component of organizational behavior Journal of Organizational Behavior 14 103ndash118
Bligh Michelle C ldquoPersonality Theories of Leadershiprdquo Encyclopedia of Group Processes amp Intergroup Relations 2009 SAGE Publications 8 Apr 2011
Brown S amp ODonnell E (2011) PROACTIVE PERSONALITY AND GOAL ORIENTATION A MODEL OF DIRECTED EFFORT Journal Of Organizational Culture Communications amp Conflict 15(1) 103-119
Carson CM Mosley DC amp Boyar SL (2004) Goal orientation and supervisory behaviors Impacting SMWT effectiveness Team Performance Management 10(78) 152 1113088162
Colquitt J LePine J amp Noe R (2000) Toward an integrative theory of training motivation A meta-analytic pathanalysis of 20 years of research Journal of Applied Psychology 85
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 14
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
678ndash707
DeRue D Barnes C M amp Morgeson F P (2010) Understanding the Motivational Contingencies of Team Leadership Small Group Research 41(5) 621-651 doi1011771046496410373808
Fiedler F (1971b) Validation and extension of the contingency model of leadership effectiveness A review of empirical findings Psychological Bulletin 76 128ndash148
Fiedler F (1978) The contingency model and the dynamics of the leadership process In LBerkowitz (Ed) Advances in experimental social psychology (pp 59ndash112) New York Academic Press
Gerhardt P L (2006) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study Capella University) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 156 p Retrieved from http0-searchproquestcomoakindwesedudocview304909009accountid=6363
Hannah S T amp Avolio B J (2010) Ready or not How do we accelerate the developmental readiness of leaders Journal Of Organizational Behavior 31(8) 1181-1187 doi101002job675
Headquarters Department of the Army (2007) Military Leadership Army Regulations 600ndash100Washington DC Government Printing Office
Judge T A Bono J E Ilies R amp Gerhardt M W (2002) Personality and leadership A qualitative and quantitative review Journal Of Applied Psychology 87(4) 765-780 doi1010370021-9010874765
Kane T D amp Tremble T R (2000) Transformational Leadership Effects at Different Level theArmy Military Psychology 12 137ndash160
Kell H J Rittmayer A D Crook A E amp Motowidlo S J (2010) Situational Content Moderates the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Behavioral Effectiveness Human Performance 23(3) 213-228 doi101080089592852010488458
Motowidlo S J (2003) Job performance In W C Borman D R Ilgen amp R J Klimoski (Eds) Handbook of psychology Industrial and organizational psychology (Vol 12 pp 39ndash53) Hoboken NJ Wiley
Peters L H Hartke D D amp Pohlmann J T (1985) Fiedlers Contingency Theory of Leadership An application of the meta-analysis procedures of Schmidt and Hunter Psychological Bulletin 97(2) 274-285 doi1010370033-2909972274
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 15
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16
2012 Cambridge Business amp Economics Conference ISBN 9780974211428
Petrides L A (2000) Exploring transformational and transactional leadership types and customer service success in retail An effectiveness exploratory case study (1st ed) Hershey PA Idea Group Publishing
Rozčenkova A amp Dimdiņš Ģ (2010) The Relationship between Self-Reported Transformational Leadership and Social Identification in the Military Baltic Journal Of Psychology 11(12) 5-17
Scriffignano R S (2011) Coaching within organisations examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders professional development Coaching An International Journal Of Theory Research amp Practiccae 4(1) 20-31 doi101080175218822010550898
Shamir B amp Ben-Ari E (2000) CHALLENGES OF MILITARY LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING ARMIES Journal Of Political amp Military Sociology 28(1) 43
Specht J Schmukle S C amp Egloff B (2011) Stability and Change of Personality Across the Life Course The Impact of Age and Major Life Events on Mean-Level and Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Journal Of Personality amp Social Psychology 101(4) 862-882 doi101037a0024950
Tett R amp Guterman H A (2000) Situation trait relevance trait expression and cross-situational consistency Testing a principle of trait activation Journal of Research in Personality 34 397ndash423
Utecht R E amp Heier W D (1976) The Contingency Model and Successful Military Leadership Academy Of Management Journal 19(4) 606-618 doi102307255794
Wong L Bliese P amp McGurk D (2003) Military leadership A context specific review The Leadership Quarterly 14 657ndash692
June 27-28 2012Cambridge UK 16