The Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (Fleishman, 1969) is a 40-item questionnaire designed to measure two important dimensions of leadership style, consideration and initiating structure. This research provides evidence from one sample which contradicts previous results involving this instrument and technically does not support the view that these two styles of leadership are unrelated to each other or to other measures of individual differences.
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