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MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. *Achievement Need; *College Faculty; Concurrent Validity; *Construct Validity; Educational Experience; Higher Education; Job Performance; *Leadership Styles; Maturity (Individuals); Models; Occupational Tests; *Rating Scales; *Readiness; Work Experience Achievement Orientation Scale (Ray); *Employee Readiness; Hersey Blanchard Situational Leadership Model; Manager Rating Scale; NachNaff Scale; Staff Member Rating Scale

The construct validity of two measures of employee was investigated by examining the relationships between and achievement motivation, and between readiness and of eaucation and work experience. The readiness, or .

maturity level, of employees is an important concept in the situational leadership model, which asserts that leader effectiveness is maximized by appropriately matching leadership style with employee readiness. Instruments used included the Manage,- Rating Scale (MRS) and the Staff Member Rating Scale (SMRS). Concurrent valitities of the NachNaff Scale and the Achievement Orientation Scale were addressed as achievement motivatim was measured. Subjects were department chairs and faculty members from 12 institutions of higher education. Useable data wre received from 222 subjects (25% of the original sample). Data were analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlation, t-tests, and one-way analysis of variance. Findings that a follower's (employee's) educational and work experience were correlated with task-relevant job readiness confirm that leaders can rely on these variables in assessing job readiness. However, there was a lack of identified relations between readiness and achievement motivation. No evidence was found for the concurrent validity of the NachNaff and Achievement Orientation Scales. In addition, the measures do not appear to discriminate adequately among readiness levels. Six data tables and a 17-item list of references are included. (SLD)

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READINESS AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF

THE VALIDITY OF THE RhADINESS SCALES IN HERSEY AND

Cal BLANCHARD'S SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Xiaoping Wang Northeast State Technial Community College

W. Hal Knight Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

East Tennessee State University

Paper Presented at the Mid-South Educational Research Conference

Lexington, Kentucky November 13-16, 1991

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Readiness and Motivation: An investigation of the

Validiiy of the Readiness Scales in Hersey

And Blanchard's Situational Leadership

Introduction

Effective leadership is one of the most essential elements of success in organizations.

The identification of the factors that contribute to leader effectiveness, however, has long

been an intriguing problem. Although initial studies on leadership effectiveness concentrated

on traits or characteristics of leaders (Stogdill, 1948), late,' studies emphasized leader

behaviors (Hemphill & Coons, 1950; Halpin, 1966). The behavioral studies have identified

various dimensions of leadership behavior that tire centered around two basic dimensions:

organization-oriented behavior and individual-oriented behavior (Hoy & Miskel, 1987). These

studies showed effective leader behavior tended to be associated with high performance in

both dimensions (Stogdill & Coons, 1957; Halpin, 1959).

Ever since the late 1960s, another stream oi leadership studies has focused on the

contingency or situation: the most effective leadership styles are associated with the situation

(Fiedler, 1967). Situational Leadership, a theory developed by Hersey and Blanchard in the

late 1960s and early 1970s, has become one of the most popular leadership models in recent

years. It has been used in management training in all kinds of organizational settings

(Hersey, Angelini, & Carakushansky, 1982). The major premise of the model is that there is

no one best leadership style for all situations; rather, leader effeciiveness is maximized by

appropriately matching the leadership style with the maturity level (later, it was also called

readiness level) of the followers.

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In Situational Leadership, two dimensions of leader behavior style are identified: task

behavior and relationship behavior. Task behavior refers to the extent to which leaders are

likely to spell out tile duties and responsibilities of the group members (followers).

Relationship behavior is associated with the extent to which leaders endeavor to maintain a

two-way or multi-way communication (Hersey & Blanchard, 1988, p, 172). Four leadership

styles are distinguished in Situational Leadership which are combinations of the two

dimensions. Style 1 (S1) is high on task-behavior and low on relationship beh:zvior;' Style 2

(S2) is high on both behaviors; Style 3 (S3) is high on relationship behavior and low on task

behavior; and Style 4 (S4) is low on both behaviors.

The situational variable in Situational Leadership is employee maturity, or employee

readiness, related to a specific task. According to Hersey and Blanchard, readiness refers to

"the extent to which a follower has the ability and willingness to accomplish a specific task"

(1988, p. 174). The two dimensions composing employee readiness are willingness, or

psychological readiness, and ability, or job readiness, related to a specific task.

Willingness, or psychological readiness, refers to the followers' willingness to take

responsibility for directing their own behavior in completing a specific task. "It is the extent

to which an individual has the confidence, commitment, and motivation to accomplish a

specific task" (Htrsey & Blanchard, 1988, p. 175). Hersey -and Blanchard argue (1988, p.

184) that willingness is affected by achievement motivation as it is defined by McClelland

(1961). According to McClelland, people with strong or high need for achievement would

seek out situations in which they could get achievement satisfact;on. They set challenging

but attainable a hievement standards for themselves and do not rely on extrinsic incentives.

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They also try harder and more successfully to reach the standards they set for themselves

(McClelland, 1961). This need for achievement (n Ach), according to Hersey and Blanchard,

influences the willingness dimension of employee readiness (1988). Accordingly, it can be

assumed that a person who has a low level of achievement motivation would be expected to

have a low level of willingness; a person with a high level of achievement motivation, on the

other hand, would be expected to have a high level of willingness.

Ability, or job readiness, is related to the ability and competence to perform certain tasks

in a particular area (Hersey & Blanchard, 1988). Ability is determined by knowledge and

skills, which are affected and determined by education and/or working experience (Hersey &

Blanchard, 1988).

Different combinations of the two dimensions of willingness and ability constitute the

continuum of follower readiness in Situational Leadership. The continuum contains the

following four levels of readiness:

R 1. Low ability and low willingness

R2. Low ability and high willingness

R3. High ability and low willingness

R4. High ability and high willingncss

According to Situational Leadership, leader effectiveness is generated when the leader

correctly assesses the follower's radiness level and applies the leadership style appropriate

for that readiness level. Leader effectiveness will be maximized when S1 matches with RI,

S2 with R2, S3 with R3, and S4 with R4.

The concept of employee readiness is crucial in Situational Leadership because it is

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the only situational component in the theory that dictates which leadership style should be

used in a given situation for maximizing leader effectiveness. It is essential that leaders

accurately assess the follower's readiness level so an appropriate leadership style is applied in

a particular situation. For the purpose of helping both leaders and their followers make valid

judgments about follower readiness and facilitating research using Situational Leadership, two

instruments were developed to measure the construct of employee readiness: Manager Fiting

Scale, and Staff Member Rating Scale (Hambleton, Blanchard, & Hersey, 1977). Each of

these Likert-type instruments consists of two 10-item subscales measuring psychological and

job readiness, respectively, on an eight-point scale. The instruments have been reported to

have high reliabilities: test-retest reli-bilities of .84 on the ability scale and .88 on the

willingness scale (Hersey, Blanchard, & Hambleton, 1978).

Although the two instruments have been popularly used in Situational Leadership research

and other leadership studies, questions have been raised concerning the validity of the

instruments, especially when the instruments were used in educational settings (Beck, 1978;

Clark, 1981; Clothier, 1984). Even though previous research has shown a clear need for

testing and revising the Situational Leadership instruments (Beck, 1978; Clothier, 1984), few

studies have rigorously examined the validity of the two instruments measuring employee

readiness.

In the present study, the construct validity of the two instruments measuring readiness in

Situational Leadership was investigated by examining the relationships betweeii readiness and

achievement motivation, and between readiness and the variables of education and work

experience. The concurrent validity of the NachNaff scale (NachNaff) (Lindgren, 1976) and

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the Achievement Orientation scale (AO) (Ray, 1975), used to measure achievement

motivation, was also addressed.

Analysis of the data collected in the study was conducted to answer the following

questions:

1. Is there a relationship between task-relevant employee psydiological

readiness defined by Hersey and Blanchard and achievement motivation

defined by McClelland?

2. Is there a relationship between employee task-relevant job readiness

defined by Hersey and Blanchard and edu:.ational and work experience

related to the specific research, service, and.instructional tasks?

3. Is there a re'ationship between employees' self-perceptions of their level

of task-relevant readiness and their employer's perception of it?

4. What is the concurrent validity of the two instruments used in the study

measuring achievement motivation defined by McCleliand?

Methodology

Subjects and Procedure

The subjects of this study consisted of 222 department chairsind 666 faculty

randomly selected from 12 higher educational institutions in the 12 Southern states that are

classified as Comprehensive Universities and Colleges I by the Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching.

Five instruments were used to gather data needed for the study: the Readiness Scales-

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-Manager Rating Scale and Staff Member Rating Scale used to measure faculty readiness

levels, the NachNaff Scale and the Achievement Orientation Scale used to measure faculty's

achievement motivatior,, and a questionnaire used to solicit faculty demographic

characteristics.

In this study, the Readiness Scale--Manager Rating Scale and the Staff Rating Form

were completed by the department chairs and the faculty on faculty's readiness. Faculty

readiness assessed was related to the specific tasks of teaching a particular course related to

the faculty member's educational background, completion of a research project, and serving

on a departmental committee.

A job readiness score and a psychologioal score for each specific task from each form

were obtained by summing the total of the five job readiness ratings and the willingness

ratings, respectively. After these scores were calculated, they were added to determine the

faculty's overall readiness scw,..

The NachNaff scale used to measure faculty achievement motivation was an adjective

checklist which consisted of 30 pairs of forced-choice items. The subjects were required to

choose between self-descriptions characterized by achievenent motivation and those

characterized by affiliation. The scale was scored in the direction of the need for

achievement and the possible highest score for the need for achievement motivation was 30.

The Achievement Orientation (AO) Scale was a questionnaire composed of 28 items that

measured n Ach. The subjects were asked to respond to each of the 28 questions with either

a "Yrs" with a value of 3, or "No" with a value 1, or "7" with a value of 2. The highest

possible score of n Ach was 84 and the lowest was 28.

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In this study, the department chairs were asked to complete the Readiness Scale--Manager

Rating Scale for each faculty selected from the department. Each faculty member was

requested to finish a demographic questionnaire, the Readiness Scale--Staff Member Rating

Scale, the NachNaff Scale, and the AO Scale.

Each department chair was contacted and sent a package containing all the instruments

for both the department chair and faculty to complete. The department chair was requested to

choose a random stratified sample of three faculty members (each at the rank of professor,

associate professor, and assistant professor) from the department and distributed the

appropriate instruments to the faculty members chosen for the study. Both the department

chair and the faculty were requested to complete the instruments and send them back to the

researcher.

Data Anal sis

The parametric statistical techniques of Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

tests, t-tests, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the

appropriate data category. All the results were tested at a significance level of a = .05 using

one-tailed tests.

Results

Characteristics of Respondents

Usable data were returnw by 222 (25%) although responses were received from 340

(38%) of the possible total of 884. Thirty-four professional ranks (3.9%) were reported by

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chairs to be either v.tcant or unused. Twenty-one department chairs (9.5%) declined to

participate for various reasons.

Chairs and faculty from departments in all 12 states were represented in the responses.

Responses were also representative of both genders (62.8% of males and 36.5% of females).

Faculty demographic data showed that the average years of teaching at the present positions

for male full professors (111 =16.02) and assistant professors (14 = 7.00) were fewer than those

for female full professors (19.67) and female assistant professors (Iy1 = 7.94). The opposite

was true for associate professors = 11.12 for males, and 11,1, = 10.75 for females). In total

years of teaching experience, however, the average for male faculty was higher than female

faculty at all ranks. Also of note is the relatively small quantity of publications and

presentations in the last three years by faculty of both genders at all ranks. For instance, the

average number of books published was .29, .06, and .30 for male full professors, associate

professors, and assistant professors, respectively; the average was .50, .06, and .09 for female

full professors, associate professors, and assistant professors, respectively. Similarly, the

average of presentations at state conferences was 1.40, .85, and .91 for male full professors,

associate professors, and assistant professors, respectively. For female full, associate, and

assistant professors, the average was 2.50, 2.13, and .80, respectively. Such results were not

unexpected since the subjects were faculty from institutions classifierr as Comprehensive

Universities and Colleges I by the Carnegie Foundation. These higher educational

institutions, in general, emphasize teaching over research. Such an emphasis was certainly

reflected in the data collected for this study (see Table 1).

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Relationship Between Psychological Readiness and Achievement Motivation

The statistical analyses in this study did not generate much support for Hersey and

Blanchard's claim that the employee's psychological readiness related to specific tasks was

affected and mediated by the person's achievement modvation. To determine the relationship

between the two variables of psychological readiness and achievement motivation, 12 Pearson

r correlation tests were conducted to analyze scores on the two variables obtained both from

faculty self-rating and department chairs' rating. Out of these 12 tests, only one correlation

was statistically significant-, the correlation between faculty self-rated psychological readiness

for research and achievement motivation measured by NachNaff ( r = 0.35, 2, < .001)

(see Table 2).

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Relationship Between Job Readiness and Education and Work Experience

To test the construct validity of the two readiness scales, analyses were conducted to

examine the relati nship between faculty job readiness and their rank and work and

educational experience related to the three tasks of teaching, research, and service. Faculty

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educational exprience consisted of data on the highest degree that the person possessed at the

time the study was conducted. Since only two subjects had a specialist degree, this group of

faculty was excluded in the testing. Only those respondents holding a doctorate or a master's

degree were compared. Six t-tests were conducted to determine if there was any statiaically

significant difference in faculty job readiness, both self-rated and department chair-rated, for

teaching, research, or service between faculty with a doctorate and faculty with a master's ,

There was a statistically significant difference between faculty with a doctorate

and those with a master's degree for teaching (1 = 2.59, df = 141, 2 < .01) and for research (1.

= 2.79, df = 139, 2 < .01). In both cases of teaching and research, the mean scores for the

faculty members with a doctorate (38.17 and 33.61) were higher than those for the faculty

with a master's degree (37.01 and 30.14). Faculty with a doctorate rated themselves higher

on job readiness for teaching and research than those with a master's degree. However, no

significant difference was found in faculty self-rated job readiness for service between the two

groups (see Table 3).

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Furthermore, no statistically significant difference was found in faculiy chair-rated job

readiness for teaching, research, and service betweeli the faculty with a doctorate and the

faculty with a master's degree.

Similar situations occurred for testing the correlations between faculty job readiness

and their work experience. Data collected for work experience included the total numlx. of

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years of teaching for the teaching task; the total number of publications of books, chapters

and rrticles as well as presentations at national, regional, and state conferences during the last

three years for the research task; and the total number of hours of public service at the

departmental, school, and university levels during the last three years for the service task. Six

Pearson r correlation tests were conducted to determine the relationship between faculty job

readiness, both faculty self-rated and department chair-rated, for teaching, research, and

service and faculty work experience related to the task.

All the correlations between faculty self-rated job readiness for teaching, research, and

service and their relevant work experience were found statistically significant although no

correlations were very high (n .46, r =.16, < .05 for teaching; n = 143, r = .29, p < .001

for research; and n = 136, r = .23, p, < .01 for service). However, no correlations were

statistically significant when the relationship was tested between faculty chair-rated job

readiness for the three tasks and faculty relevant work experience.

Six ANOVA tests were conducted to determine if there was any statistically

significant difference in faculty job readiness, both faculty self-rated and department chair-

rated, for teaching, research, and service among three ranks of full, associate, and assistant

professors. There were statistically significant differences in faculty self-rated job readiness

for teaching (E [2, 1431 = 5.08, < .01) and service (f_ [2,1391 = < .05) among the

groups of full, associate, and assistant professors while no statistically significant difference

was found for research. Student Newman-Keuls tests were conducted to determine which

group(s) was statistically different from the others. The results indicated that, in the case of

job readiness for teaching, assistant professors (..1/1_ = 37.28) were statistically different from

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full professors ( = 38.39) and associate professors Lk" = 38.32). Similar results were found

in the case of job readiness for service. Assistant professors (IA = 33.60) were statistically

different from full professors (M = 35.90) and associate professors (ILI = 36.00). In both

cases of teaching and service, assistant professors rated themselves lower on job readiness

than did full or associate professors (see Table 4).

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Again, a statistically significant difference was found in the subscale of faculty chair-

rated job readiness for teaching among full, associate, and assistant professors ( F: [2, 111] =

3.80, <.05), whereas no significant differences were found in the other two subscales of

research and service among the three faculty ranked groups. A Student Newman-Keuls test

was conducted to see which group was statistically different, and the result showed that

assistant professors (M. = 35.5) were statistically different from full professors (M = 37.4) and

associate professors = 37.4). This indir:ated that the department chairs rated assistant

professors lower than they did the full and associate professors on job readiness for teaching

(see Table 5).

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Correlation Between Faculty Self-Rated Readiness Scores and Department Chair-Rated

Readiness Scores

No statistically significant correlations were found between the scores of faculty self-

rated psychological readiness for teaching, research, and service and the scores rated by the

department chairs. As for faculty job readiness for the three tasks, a statistically significant

correlation was found between faculty self-rated scores for their job readiness for service and

the department chairs' ratings of it (r. = .21, 2 < .03) although the correlation was not very

high (see Table 6).

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In the case of faculty overall readiness, once again there were no statistically

significant correlations between the scores of faculty self-rated overall readiness and the

scores rated by the department chairs related to the three tasks of teaching, research, and

service. This finding suggested that with regard to employee readiness related to specific

tasks as measured on the readiness scales, faculty tended to perceive themselves differently

than did their department chairs.

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Concurrent Validity of the AO Scale and the NachNaff Scale

The scores of the AO scale and those of the NachNaff scale, both of which were

supposed to measure the same variable of achievement motivation, were found significantly

negatively correlated with r = -.24, Q < .001.

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The negative correlation between the two instruments indicated an inverse relationship

between the two instruments. This finding is critical since it raises serious doubt about the

validity of the two instruments measuring achievement motivation.

Other Related Findings

Descriptive statistics on faculty readiness scores showed that faculty readiness scores

related to teaching, research, and service were skewed towards the highest readiness level of

the four. No mean scores of faculty readiness, both self-rated and department chair-rated, on

job readiness or psychological readiness were lower than 31 within a possible range of 0-40.

For instance, the mean scores of faculty self-rated job readiness for teaching, research, and

service were 37.95, 32.93, and 35.05, respectively. The mean scores of faculty self-rated

psychological readiness for teaching, research, and service were 37.70, 33.53, and 31.85,

respectively. For chair-rated faculty job readiness for teaching, research, and service, the

means were 36.66, 33.69, and 35.19, respectively. The mean scores of chair-rated faculty

psychological readiness for teaching, research, and service were 36.36, 32.69, and 33.39,

respectively.

Another noteworthy result related to the instruments of the readiness scales was that

the researcher encountered some unsolicited comments from the respondents that the

instruments measuring the readiness variable wcre confusing. Some of the respondents had

difficulty understanding the Readiness Scales and were unab!e to complete the scales in the

correct way. Due to this particular problem, some of the data collected for the readiness

variable were unusable.

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Summary

In this study, the construct validity of the Readiness Scales--Manager Rating Scale and

Staff Member Rating Scale--was assessed by examining the relationship between employee

task relevant readiness and achievement motivation, and between readiness and the variables

of education and work experience. Data were gathered from five different instruments:

Readiness Scale--Manager Rating Scale, Readiness Scale--Staff Member Rating Scale, the

Achievement Orientation Scale (AO), the NachNaff Scale (NachNaff), and a faculty

demographic questionnaire. The following conclusions are drawn from the major findings:

1. There was no evidence to show that the Readiness Scale--Staff Member Rating

Scaledeveloped by Hambleton, Blanchard, and Hersey (1977) generated valid data to show

that there was a relationship between the two variables of achievement motivation and

psychological readiness.

Almost no statistically significant positive correlations either between psychological

readiness and achievement motivation or between overall readiness and achievement

motivation were found in the study. The statistically significant correlations were found only

between the readiness subscale for research and achievement motivation measured by the

NachNaff Scale. This does not provide sufficient evidence for affirming that the Readiness

Scale--Staff Member Rating Scale--generated reliable and valid data on psychological

readiness, given such a relationship between the two variables is purported in Situational

Leadership.

2. This study provided evidence that the Readiness Scale--Staff Member Rating Scale-

-generated valid data on task-relevant job readiness and that employee educational and work

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experience were intervening variables for task-relevant job readiness.

Situational Leadership postulates that employee job readiness related to specific tasks

is determined and influenced by the person's education and work experience. In this study,

such a relationship was found between faculty job readiness measured by the Readiness

Scale--Staff Member Rating Scale--and faculty education and work experience. Factors of

faculty rank, length of teaching experience, number of publications and presentations, hours of

public service, and terminal degree earned were mediating factors for faculty job readiness.

3. Little or no evidence was found for concurrent validity of the Readiness Scale--

Manager Rating Scale completed by department chairs and the Readiness Scale--Staff

Member Rating Scale completed by faculty in this study. Almost all faculty self-ratings of

job relevant readiness and the ratings by department chairs were found statistk:ally

uncorrelated. Faculty perceived themselves differently on psychological readiness, job

readiness, and overall readiness from the way their department chairs perceived them. The

lack of relationship between faculty perceptions and those of the department chairs suggests

that the instruments may have poor concurrent validity.

4. The current Readiness Scales--Manager Rating Scale and Staff Member Rating--are

not discriminative enough to identify four levels of employee readiness. In this study, no

mean scores of faculty job readiness or psychological readiness relatal to teaching, research,

and service were lower than 31 within a possible range of 0-40. Such a problem of skewing

readiness scores towards the highest or higher levels of readiness has been reported by several

previous researchers (Beck, 1978; Vetter, 1985; Clothier, 1984). The lack of discrimination

among the readiness levels suggests that the readiness scales do not accurately assess employ

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readiness levels. Such a result may also help explain why many correlations

between scores of psychological readiness and those of achievemeat motivation were not

significant since the restricted range of the readiness scores would reduce the value of

correlations.

5. No evidence was found for the concurrent validity for the NachNaff Scale

(NachNaff) and the Achievement Orientation Scale (AO), both of which measured

achievement motivation.

In summary, this study has provided data and information about the construct validity

of the two instruments measuring employee readiness: the Readiness Scale--Manager Rating

Scale and the Readiness Scale--Staff Member Rating Scale developed by Hambleton, Hersey,

and Blanchard in 1977. The findings that a follower's educational and work experience were

correlated with the follower's task-relevant job readiness have confirmed that leaders can rely

on the factors of education and work experience for accurately assessing the follower's job

readiness related to specific tasks. The lack of identified relations between the two concepts

of psychological readiness and achievement motivation suggests that both the psychological

readiness construct and the instrument that measures the construct need further investigation.

Also, the study raises a serious question about whether the leader always has sufficient

information to assess accurately the follower's overall readiness levels related to specific

tasks. There are also reasons to question whether there are unidentified factors other than

achievement motivation and education and work experience that affect the follower's job

relevant readiness. Further identification of these factors can help the leader accurately judge

the follower's readiness levels.

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Table 1 Summa of Work Ex erience for Teaching', Research, and Service of Faculty Respondents by Rank and Gender

Category Overall

Full Associate Assistant Professor Professor Professor

n M SD n M SD n M SD n M SD

Experience in Present Position

Male 98 12.26 8.27 42 16.02 7.27 33 11.12 7.83 23 7.00 7.48 Female 57 9.96 7.53 6 19.67 4.03 16 10.75 7.29 35 7.94 6.81

Total Experience of Teaching

Male 98 18.15 8.32 42 23.40 6.25 33 16.76 6.93 23 10.57 6.85 Female 57 12.51 7.64 6 23.17 4.17 16 14.13 6.61 35 9.94 6.80

Books Published Male 98 .21 .60 42 .29 .60 33 .06 .24 23 .30 .86 Female 57 .12 .47 6 .50 1.22 16 .06 .25 35 .09 .28

Chapters Published Male 98 .49 1.67 42 .57 1.31 33 .67 2.46 23 .09 .29 Female 57 .32 1.05 E. 1.17 2.86 16 .18 .54 35 .22 .60

Articles Published Male 98 2.54 3.63 42 3.21 4.15 33 2.09 3.15 23 1.96 3.15 Female 57 1.79 2.94 6 2.00 2.28 16 3.00 4.24 35 1.20 2.13

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Table 3 (Continued) Summary of Work ExQprience for Teachina, Research, and Service of Faculty Respondents by Rank and Gender

Category Overall

Full Associate Assistant Professor Professor Professor

n M SD n M SD n M SD n M SD

National Presentations

Male 98 1.57 4.46 42 2.69 6.53 33 .73 1.01 23 .74 1.66 Female 57 1.63 2.81 6 4.00 5.80 16 1.81 2.48 35 1.14 2.03

Regional Presentations

Male 98 .77 1.68 42 1.12 2.09 33 .42 1.44 23 .65 .98 Female 57 1.33 3.20 6 1.50 2.35 16 1.00 1.21 35 1.46 3.91

State Presentations

Male 98 1.10 2.10 42 1.40 2.86 33 .85 1.15 23 .91 1.41 Female 57 1.35 2.01 6 2.50 1.64 16 2.13 2.83 35 .80 1.39

Hours of Public Service

Male 92 227.59 297.10 39 313.79 392.20 31 207.00 183.47 22 103.77 159.90 Female 56 171.66 211.69 6 184.50 105.41 16 231.75 189.87 34 141.12 232.11

Table 2 Correlations for Facult Self-Rated Psychological Readiness And Achievement Motivation Measured by the Achievement Orientation Scale (AO) and the NachNaff Scale (NachNaff)

Psychological Readiness And Achievement Motivation fl

Psychological Readiness for Teaching And Achievement Motivation (AO) 138 -.11

Psychological Readiness for Research And Achievement Motivation (AO) 136 -.15

Psychological Readiness for Service And Achievement Motivation (AO) 136 -.07

Psychological Readiness for Teaching And Achievement Motivation (NachNaff) 145 .15

Psychological Readiness for Research And Achievement Motivation (NachNaff) 143 35*

Psychological Readiness for Service And Achievement Motivation (NachNaff) 143 .01

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Table t-tests for Difference in Facu4y Self-Rated Job Readiness Scores

Educational Level

Job Readiness And Education n SD df

Job Readiness for Teaching Doctorate 116 38.17 2.00

141 2.59* Master's 27 37.07 1.88

Job Readiness for Research Doctorate 113 33.61 5.58

139 2.79* Master's 28 30.14 7.05

Job Readiness for Service Doctorate 112 35.13 5.09

137 -.05 Master's 27 35.19 3.36

*2 < .01, one tailed test.

Table 4 Analysis of Variance of Faculty Se?f-Rated Job Readiness Scores by Rank

Job Readiness And Rank SD Smrce MS

Job Readinress For Teaching

Full 46 38.4 2.19 Betwn. Groups 19.82 5.08** Associate 44 38.3 1.61 Within Groups 3.90 Assistant 56 37.3 2.05

Ju) Readiness For Research . Full 45 34.2 4.87 Betwn. Groups 55.70 1.56 Associate 43 32.5 6.94 Within Groups 35.81 Assistant 55 32.2 6.00

Job Readiness For Service

Full 45 35.9 4.80 Betwn. Groups 96.26 433* Associate 42 36.0 5.41 Within Groups 22.22 Assistant 55 33.6 5.41

.05. **E < .01.

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Table 5 Analysis,of Variance of Chair-Rated Faculty Job Readiness Scores by Rank

Job Readiness And Rank SD Source MS

Job Readiness For Teaching

Full 35 37.4 3.07 Betwn. Groups 48.32 3.80* Associate 37 37.4 2.68 Within Groups 12.71 Assistant 42 35.5 4.51

Job Readiness For Research

Full 35 34.5 5.48 Betwn. Groups 29.32 .88 Associate 36 33.7 5.58 Within Groups 33.81 Assistant 41 32.8 6.28

Job Readiness For Service

Full 36 36.1 5.67 -Betwn. Groups 25.56 .74 Associate 36 34.8 7.13 Within Groups 34.41 Assistant 41 34.6 4.70

< .05.

Table 6 Correlations for Facult Self-R.1Led and Chair-Rated Job Readiness

Self-Rated and Chair-Rated Job Readiness

Job Readiness for Teaching

Job Readiness for Research

Job Readiness for Service

108

105

106

.05

.14

.21*

< .05.

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