| Leadership success is something for which everyone in an organization shares responsibility. Leadership involves something happening as a result of the interaction between a leader and followers. Leadership literature describes the variety of different leadership styles used by leaders. Leadership style is a consistent pattern of behavior, which characterizes a leader, and can be modified, as the situation requires (Lewin, Lippitt, & White, 1939). This study explored and determined if there were consistent leadership styles being used by female Noncommissioned Officer (NCOs) in the Army's Finance Corps. Additionally, this study investigated if factors such as age, rank, gender, race, and education of soldiers had an influence on how they saw female NCOs leadership behavior. A quantitative study was performed using the Bass and Avolio's (1995) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). Results from the multivariate analyses showed that for Army enlisted active duty soldiers throughout the Finance Corps, age, rank, race, and education had no influence on how they perceived female NCO leadership styles. Gender was found not to be significant for transformational and transactional leadership style, but somewhat significant for laissez-faire. Therefore, a consistent female NCO leadership style could not be determined. |
