Abstract
Effective leadership development has eluded many organizations and academia for a long time. Those who have attempted to improve the practice and study of leadership development focus on the same old elements of leadership development. The traditional elements of leadership development that have been studied and implemented previously include: the content of the leadership development programs, the delivery of leadership development programs, the length of the programs and advocating for leadership development programs that are entrenched in leadership theory. Despite numerous studies and implementation of the studies’ findings on leadership development, there exists widespread dissatisfaction with leadership development outcomes. Some scholars have observed that leader developmental readiness may be the missing ingredient in leadership development. Learning goal orientation is one of the five elements of leader developmental readiness. Therefore, this study examines the effect of learning goal orientation on leadership development. The study reveals that learning goal orientation has a significant effect on leadership development, F(1,286) = 62.346, p < 001. In addition, learning goal orientation accounts for 17.9% of the variation in leadership development. Thus, enhancing participants’ learning goal orientation should be part and parcel of any leadership development program in order to improve the effectiveness of leadership development.
Highlights
Effective leadership development has eluded many organizations and academia for a long time
Learning goal orientation is one of the five elements of leader developmental readiness, this study investigated the effect of learning goal orientation on leadership development
The findings indicated that respondents with low learning goal orientation scores had low leadership development scores and vice versa, these outcomes are similar to Kunst et al.’s (2017) findings
Summary
Effective leadership development has eluded many organizations and academia for a long time. Effective leadership is the single most important element that organizations need in an ever changing world. Given the critical role that leaders play, every generation has experienced the problem of leadership shortage, but the current generation is in dire need of effective leadership. Effective leadership development increases the numbers and the effectiveness of leaders and the reverse is true for ineffective leadership development. Those who have attempted to improve the practice and study of leadership development focus on the same old elements of leadership development. Learning goal orientation is one of the five elements of leader developmental readiness, this study investigated the effect of learning goal orientation on leadership development. The study is made up of five sections: introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion and conclusion
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