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Leader Influence Behavior, Follower ILTs, and Follower Commitment: A Multilevel Field Investigation
… proactive leader influence behaviors (PLIBs) and followers' commitment to their leaders. Selected elements of followers' implicit leadership theories (ILTs) were expected to moderate the PLIBs – commitment relationships. Hypotheses were generated and tested in order to determine the extent to …
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Emotional contagion in leader-follower interactions
… positive affect, they elicit more positive follower attributions of leadership (Lewis, 2000; Newcombe & Askanasy, 2002) and better follower performance (George, 1995; George & Bettenhausen, 1990). Yet the mechanism for these effects has largely been ignored in empirical research. The current …
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Novel approaches in voltage-follower design
… programme was to design and develop novel voltagefollowerslbuffers, suitable for radio frequency (RF) applications. The emphases throughout has been on improving key characteristics, in particular distortion, operating bandwidth, input and output impedances, offset-voltage and power supply demands …
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Implicit Theories of Leader-Follower Relationships
… sound measure of implicit theories of leader-follower relationships (ITLFRs), which are defined as the implicit beliefs one holds about the malleability or fixedness of leader-follower relationships. A series of five studies were undertaken to test various forms of validity and reliability, in …
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Testing a Model of Servant Leadership's Influence on Follower Outcomes: Exploring Mediation Effects of Follower Trust and Prosocial Identity
… JD-R framework, the present study investigates follower prosocial identity and follower trust as key mediators of the relationship between servant leadership and follower job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors, community citizenship behaviors, and …
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How Leadership Affects Follower Satisfaction: The Federal Case
… the perception of leadership effectiveness and follower satisfaction in the federal government. To establish if this revised model is consistent with federal employees' perception of effective leadership, if leadership in the federal government increases follower satisfaction, and if both the …
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Improving Leader-Follower Formation Control Performance for Quadrotors
This thesis aims to improve the leader-follower team formation flight performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by applying nonlinear robust and optimal techniques, in particular the nonlinear H_infinity and the iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR), to stabilisation, path tracking and …
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Leader-Follower and Nash Strategies With State Information
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T20:55:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009125.pdf: 4919592 bytes, checksum: 4a4f906b0988fedf372c6af6d4df7524 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Information Structures in Nash and Leader-Follower Strategies
… information structures in some Nash and Leader-Follower games is examined. By preserving the information structure of the full order singularly perturbed game, while solving the reduced order ones, reduced order near optimal strategies are obtained and well-posedness is shown for two classes of …
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An automatic curve follower for the Rockefeller Differential Analyzer
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1950.
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Increasing the efficiency of cam follower systems through energy recovery
A cam and follower system is a mechanical linkage designed to transform a rotating motion to that of a linear reciprocating motion. Cams are well known for valving in internal combustion engines but are commonly utilized in industrial processes including stamping, food processing, and textile …
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The Timing of Follower Firm Entry Into Related Product Markets
This dissertation examines the timing of follower firm adoption of related product markets and assesses to what extent communication theory can be useful in explaining the phenomena. Adoption of a product market is defined here as a firm's entry into the market as indicated by the introduction of …
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The Impact of Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Follower Goal Commitment
… behaviors of leaders and the goal commitment of followers. Other constructs of interest are self-efficacy, goal congruence, and power. The central research questions include: 1) What are the effects of transformational leadership behaviors on the commitment of followers to goals?; 2) Do the …
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A Field Investigation of Implicit Theory Congruence in Leader-Follower Relationships
… of interpersonal congruence between leaders' and followers' implicit theories of leadership (ILTs) and followership (IFTs) in both partners' perspectives of the leader-follower relationship. While most literature focuses on assessments of the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship, this study …
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The role of emotional intelligence in the quality of leader-follower relationship
… showed that the combination of both leader and follower emotional intelligence moderated the relationship between Islamic leader-member exchange and a number of important work related outcomes. The results suggest that emotional intelligence can help leaders and subordinates to facilitate …
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Design of a cam and follower linear actuator for satellite optical systems
… for these satellite linear actuators. A cam and follower linear actuator was designed to fulfill these stiffness and precision requirements. Through modeling the dynamic and kinematic interactions between the cam and follower, a cam shape was designed, and necessary materials were chosen. Next …
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Contact stress analysis and fatigue life prediction for a cam-roller follower system
An analytical treatment of the fatigue performance of a cam-roller followler system as influenced by residual stresses induced by grinding, is developed. An approach based on an extended Hertzian analysis is used to determine the 3-D contact stress fields, which are then combined by elastic …
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The relationship between pastoral influence tactics, follower outcome levels, and types of congregational change
… by senior pastors in Southern Baptist churches, follower outcome levels, and types of congregational change. The intent of this study is to understand the relationships between these three variables as they relate to pastoral leadership. In chapter 1, the researcher introduces the topic and …
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