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Change-centered leadership: An extension of the two-dimensional model

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  • Ekvall, Göran
  • Arvonen, Jouko

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In three samples drawn from people taking courses at staff training centres in Sweden, Finland and the U.S.A., a factor analysis of a leadership behaviour questionnaire revealed the same pattern of leadership styles. All the participants described their own manager in a 36-item questionnaire; the managers were also rated for managerial competence and the respondent's personal attitude to the manager was given. Three strong factors emerged in each sample: the two well-known factors, employee-centeredness (consideration) and production-centeredness (structure), and a third factor which has to do with promoting change. A factor analysis was then run on the total sample of 711 managers. The third factor may have developed in today's companies as a consequence of the accelerating rate of change in many areas, which affects both products and processes.

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  • Ekvall, Göran & Arvonen, Jouko, 1991. "Change-centered leadership: An extension of the two-dimensional model," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 7(1), pages 17-26.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:7:y:1991:i:1:p:17-26
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