PSYCHOLOGY MASTER'S THESIS ABSTRACT

Sylvia Munoz
Industrial/Organizational
December 1994

Achieving and Leadership Styles of Mexican-American Business and Professional Women

    Achieving and leaderships styles of 52 Mexican-American business and professional women employed in industry, education, social work and medicine in Southern California were investigated via questionnaires regarding leadership style, achieving style and demographics.

    Data analysis (one-tailed t-test) of responses to the Leadership Opinion Questionnaire showed that these women reported leadership styles with higher levels of consideration than of structure, suggesting that they used a nurturant style of leadership.

    Data analysis (one-way analysis of variance) of responses to the Achieving Styles Inventory showed that the group’s most preferred achieving style was intrinsic direct, followed by contributory relational, collaborative relational, power direct, vicarious relational, entrusting, personal instrumental, social instrumental and competitive direct.  The order of domain scores was relational, direct and instrumental.  These results suggest that these women used these achieving styles in the reported order of preference.

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