| Abstract: | Employed facet analysis with 327 male and 80 female subordinates in industry, business, and academia. Leadership styles were defined as a function of 3 facets--the leader's behavior, the locus of power, and the locus of information within a management-subordinate system. Five leadership styles were defined by these facets--direction, negotiation, consultation, participation, and delegation. The common order that exists within each facet determined a partially ordered set of leader styles. The intercorrelation matrix of leader styles, based on survey data, was subjected to the Guttman-Lingoes smallest space analysis, which transforms correlation coefficients to distance in an Euclidean space. The hypothesized partial order relations among the different leader styles were accurately reflected in the analysis. This lends support to the potential of facet analysis in studying leadership styles. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
