Leadership Identity Development: Challenges in Applying a Developmental Model

1Professor Counseling and Personnel Services Department University of Maryland College Park, MD
2Assistant Professor University of Northern Arizona Educational Psychology Flagstaff, AZ
3Assistant Professor Leadership Studied Peace College Raleigh, NC
4Co-Director Center for Leadership and Civic Education Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
5Assistant Professor New Century College George Mason University Fairfax, VA
6Doctoral Candidate Counseling & Personnel Services University of Maryland College Park, MD

Journal of Leadership Education

ISSN: 1552-9045

Article publication date: 15 June 2009

Issue publication date: 15 June 2009

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Abstract

The leadership identity development (LID) grounded theory (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005) and related LID model (Komives, Longerbeam, Owen, Mainella, & Osteen, 2006) present a framework for understanding how individual college students develop the social identity of being collaborative, relational leaders interdependently engaging in leadership as a group process (Komives, Lucas, & McMahon, 1998, 2007). Challenges to applying and measuring this stage based developmental theory are discussed and recommendations are included.

Citation

Komives, S.R., Longerbeam, S.D., Mainella, F., Osteen, L., Owen, J.E. and Wagner, W. (2009), "Leadership Identity Development: Challenges in Applying a Developmental Model", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 11-47. https://doi.org/10.12806/V8/I1/TF2

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