Title :
An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Leadership and Personal Initiative
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Psychol., ZheJiang Univ., Hangzhou
Abstract :
The relationship between Leadership and Personal Initiative was explored. 255 employees and 45 superiors were surveyed by MLQ (5X), work-related self-efficacy questionnaire and personal initiative questionnaire. The results showed that leadership had close relationship with personal initiative, transformational leadership had augmentation validity based on transactional leadership in predicting personal initiative, self-efficacy played a mediator role in the relationship between leadership and personal initiative.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences; human factors; augmentation validity; personal initiative; transactional leadership; transformational leadership; Contingency management; Data mining; Educational institutions; Psychology; augmentation effect; leadership; personal initiative;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009. WKDD 2009. Second International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Moscow
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3543-2
DOI :
10.1109/WKDD.2009.39
