Concept of Leadership Programmed

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to determine if there is duplication of certain leadership instruction presented to Infantry Officer Basic Course students and if programmed instruction can be used to overcome the defect. Programmed instruction could be used as a brush up or review for those students entering the Infantry Officer Basic Course in lieu of some formal platform instruction. Thus saving instructional time and reducing or eliminating the duplication of instruction defect. Following this line of reasoning the first task was to define the concept of leadership as taught by the leadership and Command Committee U. S. Army Infantry School and Reserve Officer Training Corps units. Investigation revealed that both institutions' definition of the concept/of leadership was the same. The next task was to analyze the concept of leadership instruction presented to Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets and to Infantry Officer Basic Course students at the U. S. Army Infantry School to determine if an overlap existed. The final task was to determine if a self-instructional programmed lesson could be written that would teach or review the basic concept of leadership to Infantry officer Basic Course students most of whom are Reserve Officer Training Corps graduates and write the self-instructional programmed unit. Investigation proved that there is an extensive overlap in the concept of leadership instruction in the Reserve Officer Training Corps Course and Infantry Officer Basic Course. Because other subjects closely related to leadership--management logic human behavior--had been successfully programmed it was determined that the concept of leadership could be taught through the use of programmed instruction media. The concept of leadership was programmed in a constructed response linear format containing 129 frames.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>