Predicting army leadership ability by modified leaderless group discussion

Abstract

"Basic training graduates… (n = 459)… assigned to the Fort Knox, Kentucky, leadership school participated in a leaderless group discussion experiment (designed to substitute peer ratings for observer ratings). The status in the leaderless discussion group… (a forced distribution peer rating)… for each subject correlated… (.44)… with final leadership performance in the school… prior acquaintance with LGD members… was found to be influential in improving the predictive ability of the LGD method." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)