| Individuals who perceive their organization as unwilling to allow particular attitudes or behaviors may not be willing to perform actions that could help the organization move toward the vision. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to determine if individuals within the same organization have the same perception of their organization regarding openness to performing Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The study population included all full-time employees of a faith-based publishing organization associated with a Southeastern university. The researcher designed survey instrument's reliability was .888, which was determined using Cronbach's coefficient alpha. The findings of the study indicate there were no significant differences (p = .05) between the various grouping combinations in perception of organizational openness to performing each of the five practices. The researcher concluded that the organization's established communication process does effectively communicate the message to the organization regardless of title, gender, education level, and years of service. However, the participants did not perceive the organization as favorable to their performing the behaviors associated with the five practices. Therefore, the organization can use established procedures to affect change toward a more favorable view of performing leadership behaviors. |
