| The academic and commercial community continues to search for a leadership training theory that will provide consistent results and improve leadership praxis. This study aims to determine through empirical analysis if the new contextual prescriptive model as developed by Zigarmi, Lyles, and Fowler (2007) and taught to groups of students provides a statistically significant impact to leadership outcomes. To date, only one organization, the Catholic Leadership Institute, has developed and implemented a system of training using this model.;The model proposes five practices and five contexts. This study focuses on the foundational context of self-leadership and the five practices. The Solomon four-group design was used in this study, to provide for isolation of various effects given the limitations of the quasi-experimental nature of the cohorts, the non-equivalent groups and the self-selected subjects. Comparison and treatment effects were measured using the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ) as developed by Houghton and Neck (2002). Results were analyzed through descriptive statistics, ANCOVA, ANOVA, and Student's t-test. A total of 134 subjects were compared using paired sample and group means to test the impact of the training on six hypotheses relating to overall self-leadership skills and the five practices of the model.;The results indicate that the subjects participating in the training based on the prescriptive model did not significantly demonstrate improved RSLQ scores for any of the six hypotheses tested. |
