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DR. DINGER ZELJKO RECOGNIZED BY THE LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY
St. Davids, PA, August 27, 2008: The Center for Creative Leadership and The Leadership Quarterly present an award each year for the most significant contribution. Michael Mumford, Senior Editor of The Leadership Quarterly, has announced that the 2007 recipients for this award are Dr. John Sosik of Penn State Great Valley and Eastern University’s Dr. Sandi Dinger Zeljko for their co-authored research essay, “Relationships between leadership style and vision content: The moderating role of need for approval, self-monitoring, and need for social power,” published in The Leadership Quarterly, 18, 134-153. Dr. Zeljko is an affiliate faculty in the School of Management Studies (http://www.eastern.edu/academic/ccgps/sms/index.html) and an instructor in the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership program (http://www.eastern.edu/academic/ccgps/oip/index.html).
“This recognition demonstrates once again the quality of scholarship and teaching exemplified by Dr. Zeljko and her Eastern University colleagues,” Executive Dean Dr. Tony Blair said.
Members of the editorial board of The Leadership Quarterly determine the award winner through a rigorous selection process. Dr. Zeljko’s study examines the relationship between leaders' personal attributes, leadership style and vision content.
In her research for the essay, Dr. Zeljko gathered 183 corporate managers from six industries to complete a 14-week leadership development course, and provide self-reports of their need for social approval, self-monitoring, and need for social power by the second week of the course. 809 subordinates provided ratings of their manager's leadership style by the third week of the course. Upon completion of the course, the managers wrote vision statements which were coded and analyzed and researched to learn about the relationship between vision strength, leadership style, and content.
The Center for Creative Leadership was founded in 1970 with financial support from the Smith Richardson Foundation Inc. With a mission to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide, the Center is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit institution and annually serves more than 20,000 individuals and 2,000 organizations across the public, private, nonprofit and education sectors. Last year alone, the Center funded 255 scholarships at a value of more than $1 million for leaders of nonprofit organizations to attend CCL educational programs. For more information, visit: http://www.ccl.org/.
The Leadership Quarterly is an international journal of political, social and behavioral science published in affiliation with the International Leadership Association. For more information, visit: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620221/description#description.
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