Constructive Developmental Theory: An Alternative Approach to Leadership

Constructive developmental theory: an alternative approach to leadership.

Looking through the lens of leadership: a constructive developmental approach

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between leadership development level (LDL) and leadership effectiveness utilizing 360-degree feedback scores. Researchers examine raters’ ability to recognize effective leadership practices using a constructive developmental framework. Design/methodology/approach – This approach is quantitative and involved data gathered from s...

AN EXAMINATION OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS USING CONSTRUCTIVE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY by LAUREN SINGER HARRIS

Researchers examine a Constructive Developmental (CD) view of leadership development. While past research has found that upper level executives tend to possess higher leadership levels, there exists a lack of empirical research examining the relationship of CD leadership theory with actual performance ratings. This study examines the relationship of CD theory as applied to the study of leadersh...

A Developmental Approach to Global Leadership

Global leadership development has received increased attention in recent years from practitioners and researchers. Drawing from global mindset, constructive development, and intercultural sensitivity literatures, this article proposes a model for developing global leaders. While developmental activities are challenging for most individuals, it is proposed that training domestic leaders to devel...

Metamorphosis Networks: An Alternative to Constructive Models

Given a set oft raining examples, determining the appropriate number of free parameters is a challenging problem. Constructive learning algorithms attempt to solve this problem automatically by adding hidden units, and therefore free parameters, during learning. We explore an alternative class of algorithms-called metamorphosis algorithms-in which the number of units is fixed, but the number of...