Developing Leaders via Experience: The Role of Developmental Challenge, Learning Orientation, and Feedback Availability

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: DeRue, D. Scott; Wellman, Ned
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0015317
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 859-875
• 关键词: Leadership; leadership development; experience; LEARNING ORIENTATION; feedback

摘要

Prior research offers limited insight into the types of work experiences that promote leadership skill development and the ways that the person and context shape the developmental value of these experiences. In this article, the authors develop a series of hypotheses linking leadership skill development to features of the experience (developmental challenge), person (learning orientation), and context (feedback availability). Based oil 225 on-the-job experiences across 60 managers, their results demonstrate that the relationship between developmental challenge and leadership skill development exhibits a pattern of diminishing returns, However, access to feedback can offset the diminishing returns associated with high levels of developmental challenge.