Leadership behaviors in undergraduate hospitality management and dietetics students

A Leadership Development Instrument for Students: Updated

“…Baxter (2001) found that students stationed as ROTC unit instructors (typically in their fifth year of studies) had higher leadership practices scores than did other students on the campus. Arendt (2004), in comparing students, found that those who had held official leadership positions and/ or taken courses in leadership reported higher leadership practices scores.…”

“…These findings indicated that college student leaders did engage in these leadership practices and that this conceptual framework was relevant to the college students' leadership experiences. A recent study by Arendt (2004) followed a similar process for validating the appropriateness of the personal best leadership case study methodology and Student LPI for use with college students. She conducted in-depth, open-ended interviews with eight students about their personal experiences that might typify the five leadership practices.…”

“…The internal reliabilities on the Student LPI-Self for Orientation Advisors ranged between α = .56 and α = .66, while their constituents' scores on the Student LPIObserver ranged between α = .80 and α = .85 (Posner & Rosenberger, 1997). For students majoring in dietetics (across eight college campuses) internal reliability scores on the Student LPI-Self ranged from α = .55 for Challenging to α = .76 for Inspiring (Arendt, 2004). For students majoring in hospitality management (across eight college campuses) the range of internal reliability coefficients on the Student LPI-Self was α = .65 for Challenging to α = .78 for Encouraging (Arendt, 2004).…”

“…This was true from both the leaders' perspectives and from the perspectives of people in their organizations (Posner & Brodsky, 1994). Few gender differences among college students have been reported, from populations ranging from Greek chapter leaders in the Midwest (Adams & Keim, 2000), first-year undergraduates (Mendez-Grant, 2001), or students enrolled in either hospitality management or dietetics programs (Arendt, 2004).…”

Identifying Student Leaders: A core self-evaluation approach

“…These dimensions include: (a) challenging the process, (b) inspiring a shared vision, (c) enabling others to act, (d) modeling the way, and (e) encouraging the heart. The S-LPI was developed byKouzes and Posner (2002) through extensive interviewing and has been supported as reliable and valid within the literature(Arendt, 2004;Posner & Rosenberger, 1997;Posner, 2004).Both measures have previously been supported in the literature as reliable and valid, therefore these were used verbatim, without any changes made to the scales. During the semesters both groups of students were also asked to complete demographic items included on the previous instruments.…”