Leadership and predictive abstracting

Abstract

83 employees representing 4 echelons were administered an attitude questionnaire dealing with job satisfaction, economic issues, and social issues. Then each echelon predicted the attitudes of department managers as one group and non-supervisory personnel as a second group. The data generally support the hypothesis that predictive abstracting is an aspect of leadership, with the following specific observations: (1) the supervisory personnel predicted more accurately than the non-supervisory and (2) the more focal supervisory echelons predicted more accurately than the less focal. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)