Leadership as a Medium: Its Emergence and Effect on Performance in Small Leaderless Groups

Abstract

This research examined the relationships of individual (but not personality), group, and group dynamics variables to the phenomenon of group leadership emergence in laboratory settings. Using teams as the basic units of analysis, it discovered through the use of Logistic Regression procedure that those variables could be utilized to predict the emergence of small group leaders. However, there was no evidence to support any associations between groups with or without emergent leaders and group performance.