A vertical dyad linkage approach to leadership within formal organizations: A longitudinal investigation of the role making process
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Authors
Dansereau, Fred, Jr.
Graen, George
Haga, William J.
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1975
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1975
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Academic Press, Inc.
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Abstract
The use of an alternative to the research strategies employed for the past 20 yrs and more to investigate leadership produced results which question the traditional models and open new avenues for empirical exploration. Approaching leadership as an exchange relationship which develops within the vertical dyad over time during role making activities, this longitudinal study found that the degree of latitude that a superior granted to a member to negotiate his role was predictive of subsequent behavior on the part of both superior and member. Contrary to traditional views of leadership, superiors typically employed both leadership and supervision techniques within their units. With a select subset of their members, superiors developed leadership exchanges (influence without authority), and with others, superiors developed only supervision relationships (influence based primarily upon authority). Some of the many implications of these findings are discussed.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0030-5073(75)90005-7
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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National Science Foundation
National Institute of Education
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
State University of New York at Buffalo
National Institute of Education
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
State University of New York at Buffalo
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33 p.
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Dansereau Jr, Fred, George Graen, and William J. Haga. "A vertical dyad linkage approach to leadership within formal organizations: A longitudinal investigation of the role making process." Organizational behavior and human performance 13.1 (1975): 46-78.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.