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Leadership and regressive group processes: a pilot study.

Marie G Rudden¹, Stuart Twemlow, Steven Ackerman

¹mgrudden@gmail.com

The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis

|January 9, 2009

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Effective leadership in medical teams involves managing group dynamics and regression. Leaders scoring higher on the Leadership and Group Regressions Scale (LGRS) correlated with better goal achievement.

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Area of Science:

Organizational Psychology
Psychoanalytic Theory
Sociobiology

Background:

Leadership effectiveness is examined across psychoanalytic, organizational, and sociobiological fields.
Effective leaders may possess the ability to structure tasks, manage group regression, and redirect regressive energies constructively.

Purpose of the Study:

To review leadership perspectives and propose hypotheses for effective leadership.
To assess the utility of the Leadership and Group Regressions Scale (LGRS) in operationalizing these hypotheses.

Main Methods:

Qualitative observation of 18 medical staff work groups using videotaped sessions.
Quantitative analysis using the Leadership and Group Regressions Scale (LGRS).

Main Results:

In some groups, the nominal leader was not the actual working leader.
A significant correlation was found between leaders' LGRS scores and the group's satisfactory completion (p = 0.007) and sustained achievement (p = 0.04) of quantitative goals.

Conclusions:

The LGRS shows utility in assessing leadership effectiveness related to group goal attainment.
Leadership effectiveness is linked to the ability to manage group dynamics and regressive forces.