As the role of the psychoed coordinator expands to include opportunity for the use of leadership in areas requiring specific leadership skills, the need for coordinators who are trained in the application of leader style increases as well. The purpose of this study was to determine how effective psychoed coordinators currently are in selecting and using appropriate leadership styles. / Thirty-nine psychoeducational coordinators from the state of Georgia participated in the study using Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Theory. Coordinator responses to the twelve situations on the LEAD Self instrument and a brief questionnaire provided demographic information and self perceptions of leadership ability. / There were 57 directors' forms returned in response to the companion LEAD Other instrument. The directors' responses allowed the researcher to compare self perceptions with other perceptions of leader style preference, effectiveness, and style range. / Analysis of variance tests revealed no significant differences (.05 level) between coordinators' self-perceptions and others' perceptions of effectiveness. Coordinators were perceived by the directors to operate in the low average effectiveness range. The coordinators, as well as the directors, perceived that the coordinators use a limited, two-style range of leadership that is predominantly high relationship oriented. Chi square tests showed that no significant relationship exists between either self perceptions of primary style or others' perceptions of primary style and demographic variables of coordinator gender, age, experience in education, or educational level. Coordinators were not perceived to make effective use of directive or delegating leadership styles. In fact, they were found to rarely use those styles at all. / Recommendations were made that training and inservice for psychoed coordinators focus on improving their application of leadership skills, including the effective use of a variety of leader styles. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-10, Section: A, page: 3488. / Major Professor: Richard Kraft. / Thesis (Ed.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76507 |
| Contributors | Hall, Tawanna Bell., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 166 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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