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Kaiser, R.B., Craig, S.B., Overfield, D., & Yarborough, P. (2009). Testing the leadership pipeline: Do the behaviors related to managerial effectiveness change with organizational level? Manuscript under review.
There is an extensive literature on how the requirements of managerial jobs differ across organizational levels. But past research has largely been descriptive; no previously published study has directly tested whether the behaviors that predict effectiveness are different at different levels. We tested whether organizational level moderated the relationships between subordinate ratings on seven dimensions of managerial behavior and superior evaluations of overall effectiveness using a set of identical measures in a sample of 2,175 supervisors, middle managers, and executives representing 15 different industries and dozens of organizations based in the U.S. Multivariate analyses revealed significant differences in the pattern of behaviors associated with effectiveness across levels. Many differences were discontinuous (e.g., positive predictors of effectiveness at one level were negative predictors at another) and generally consistent with the dominant themes in the literature characterizing the unique requirements of managerial jobs at different levels.
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