He previously held professional and leadership positions in major U.S. corporations during a nearly 30-year business career.
[3] He was interested in the impact that a modern leadership style has on follower performance and job satisfaction.
Meta-analysis allows a researcher to combine the numerical findings of a variety of original studies into an aggregate measure.
To facilitate the transition to more collaborative forms of leadership, Dr. Levasseur conducted a study that examined the impact of leaders who use modern styles of leadership, characterized as visionary, charismatic, or transformational, to motivate their followers to achieve higher levels of performance and job satisfaction.
The meta-analysis provided effect size estimates of the relationship between leadership style and two follower outcomes, performance and satisfaction.
The meta-analysis also provided estimates of the magnitude and statistical significance of four factors that prior research indicated might affect these relationships: (a) research design (i.e., experimental or correlational study); (b) subject of analysis (i.e., individual or group); (c) type of participant (i.e., student, military, or worker); and (d) type of performance measurement (i.e., objective or subjective).
Smaller, but statistically significant, positive effect sizes from the experiments included in the study supported these findings.
Research design and participant type explained a small, but statistically significant, amount of the unexplained variation.
However, the impact of subject of analysis and type of performance measurement on the residual variance in the data was not statistically significant.
Dr. Levasseur, a faculty member at one of America's premier online Ph.D. granting universities for 20 years, teaches doctoral courses and serves on the dissertation committees of students of management and public policy and administration.
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