Understanding Predicting and Supporting Leader Self-Development

Systematic research was performed to better understand and support individual professional self-development. Over 400 junior-military leaders participated in detailed longitudinal research to test a structural model of leader self-development. Results provide a unifying framework for understanding t...

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Main Authors: Boyce, Lisa A, Wisecarver, Michelle M, Zaccaro, Stephen J
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ARMY PERSONNEL
ARMY RESEARCH
CAREERS
INDIVIDUALIZED TRAINING
LEADERSHIP
OFFICER PERSONNEL
PE62785A
PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT
Personnel Management and Labor Relations
SKILLS
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Summary:Systematic research was performed to better understand and support individual professional self-development. Over 400 junior-military leaders participated in detailed longitudinal research to test a structural model of leader self-development. Results provide a unifying framework for understanding the effects of individual characteristics on propensity for self-development. The model depicts a person with a mastery, work, and career-growth orientation as more motivated to perform leader self-development and more skilled at performing instructional and self-regulatory processes and therefore more likely to perform leader self-development. Further, results indicated that an organizational support tool moderated the actual performance of leader self-development activities. The implications of the results for self- development theory and for leader self-development in the Army are discussed.