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Volume 15, Issue 5
1 August 1994
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Research Article| August 01 1994

Emergence of the Operant Model of Effective Supervision : or How an Operant Conditioner Got Hooked on Leadership Available to Purchase

Judith L. Komaki
Judith L. Komaki
Based at Baruch College, City University of New York,USA.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1472-5347
Print ISSN: 0143-7739
© MCB UP Limited
1994
Leadership & Organization Development Journal (1994) 15 (5): 27–32.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01437739410059962

A first‐hand account of how one of the lesser known features of operant conditioning – its prosocial stance hooked an idealistic graduate student in the late 1960s and has kept her contentedly spinning models in the field of leadership.

Keywords:
Behavioural sciences, Individual behaviour, Leadership, Management development, Occupational health/safety, Organizational change, Supervision
© MCB UP Limited
1994
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