Leadership behaviour similarity as a basis of selection into a management team.
There are contexts where, in order to be effective, a management team needs to display different leadership behaviours as well as possessing a wide range of experiences and skills. But achieving heterogeneity of behaviours is difficult if there are behavioural-similarity biases affecting a selection process. A sample of 126 participants completed a simulation of a selection process for a management team. They compared selection criteria and chose either a task or relations-oriented applicant for an advertised position as well as reporting their perception of their own preferred leadership style. The results of the simulation indicate that leadership behaviour can be a basis for similarity-attraction in the selection of a management team.
Eagleson
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Centre for Corporate Change, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Australia. G.Eagleson@unsw.edu.au
Waldersee
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Simmons
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D000288:Administrative Personnel; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007857:Leadership; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009517:New South Wales; D010551:Personality; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods*; D012928:Social Desirability