| Poor environmental decision-making on the part of military leaders may negatively impact the sustainability of military training resources and degrade readiness. The motivation for this study was to enhance understanding of military leader decision-making style as it relates to obtaining positive environmental outcomes. The Bernard Bass and Bruce Avolio Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was used to determine leadership style and the Riley Dunlap, Kent Van Liere, Angela Mertig, and Robert Jones New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale was used for environmental attitudes. The subjects were United States Army officers from a southern National Guard organization holding ranks of Captain through General Officer.; The results indicate leadership styles will be significant predictors of environmental attitudes. Transformational leadership style was the most prevalent and Laissez-faire the least prevalent among subjects. No significant relationship was found between gender, age, level of education, rank, liberalism, and environmental attitudes.; Implications for military leadership training include fostering pro-environmental attitudes through strategy centered on developing specific leadership styles. Recommendations include improving military leader success potential by screening for pro-environmental leadership style, integrating pro-environmental leadership style development into military leader competency mapping, and including metrics for measuring and predicting success in job placements requiring sound environmental decision-making aptitude. |
