AN INVESTIGATION OF EMOTIONALITY LOADING TO LEADERS AND PERFORMANCE THROUGH JUDGEMENT OF DISTANCE PERCEPTION

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out, through experiments, about the relationship of the PM leadership patterns to group members' emotions toward their leaders as well as toward their products. Utilized to measure group members' emotions toward their leaders and products was the way in which the judgement of distance perceptions was made regarding photographs of their leaders and samples of their products on the size-distance table.
The results indicated that those members who worked under leaders of PM and M types showed positive emotional loadings toward their leaders and products, while those members who worked under leaders of P type showed negative emotional loadings toward their leaders and products.