Self-vs.-Teammate Assessment of Leadership Competence: The Effects of Gender, Leadership Self-Efficacy, and Motivation to Lead

1Assistant Professor, Agricultural Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
2Graduate Student, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820
3Assistant Dean and Director, Engineering Career Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801

Journal of Leadership Education

ISSN: 1552-9045

Article publication date: 15 April 2014

Issue publication date: 15 April 2014

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Abstract

A sample (N=81) of undergraduates participating in a semester-long team-project engineering course completed assessments of their leadership competence, motivation to lead, and leadership self-efficacy, as well as the leadership competence of their peers who served within their durable teams. Results indicated that peers scored students lower than students scored themselves; that males deflated the transactional leadership scores of the female peers they assessed; and that the strongest individual predictor of teammate- assigned scores was a student’s affective-identity motivation to lead (i.e. the degree to which they considered themselves a natural leader). Leadership self-efficacy failed to significantly predict teammate scores.

Citation

Rosch, D.M., Collier, D.A. and Zehr, S.M. (2014), "Self-vs.-Teammate Assessment of Leadership Competence: The Effects of Gender, Leadership Self-Efficacy, and Motivation to Lead", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 96-124. https://doi.org/10.12806/V13/I2/R5

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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