Ca. Schriesheim et al., IS IT TRUSTWORTHY - A MULTIPLE-LEVELS-OF-ANALYSIS REEXAMINATION OF ANOHIO-STATE LEADERSHIP STUDY, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE-RESEARCH, The Leadership quarterly, 6(2), 1995, pp. 111-145
A moderator subgroup study, originally published by Schriesheim and Mu
rphy (1976), is reexamined using the within-group agreement coefficien
t (r(WG); James, Demaree, and Wolf, 1984), moderated raw-score multipl
e linear regression, and moderated within- and between-entity analysis
(WABA; Dansereau, Alutto, and Yammarino, 1984; Schriesheim, forthcomi
ng). The results show serious discrepancies in results between the sub
group and regression approaches, the need to exercise care in interpre
ting the r(WG) and raw-score regression results, and the necessity of
conducting WABA and supplemental within-entity WABA moderation analyse
s to gain meaningful insight into the phenomena being investigated. Im
plications and future directions for leadership theory and research ar
e considered.