Reliability Vs. Validity Analysis

Olusanya Oyeyemi

Walden University

Abstract

The effectiveness of any team depends more on the role-play by the leader of the group and the leaders relationship with the flowers enhances the ability of the leader to bring out the creativity in the group.  Television directors were examined to analyse the real-world leaders, how collaborative efforts are managed and how they manage different leadership styles to lead their team.

RELIABILITY VS. VALIDITY

The purpose of this article is to examine how real-world leaders lead creative teams, using television directors as a reference point. The question remain that, which method is the most appropriate to evaluate leadership performance effectively? The authors adapted qualitative research method since leadership is a socially constructed role, qualitative method remain the most appropriate method in understanding the construct from multiple perspectives (Murphy, & Ensher, 2008 ). About 21 television directors were interviewed on how they carried out their leading role in Television productions. The 21 directors that gave the information comprises of 7 females and 14 male, most of these professional claim to learn their skills by understudying another professional in the industry. Only 7 directors learn their skills from secular schools, meaning that only one director combine both methods of learning.

The inference from this research shows that television directors demonstrate leader-like behaviours, by using charismatic leadership behaviours to gain group cooperation and increase creativity. They also employed different systems to conveying their vision and direction with other different departments. Involve in production. Directors demonstrate their sensitivity to members’ need by giving the support their followers need to bring out the creativity in them. The author established that highest percentages of television directors are charismatic leadership instead of transformational leadership. This was evident in the way they use shared leadership, understanding of the larger environment, and unconventional behavior to demonstrate leading by example and to promote creativity. The concept of this research is to “ investigate whether directors are involved in the practice of leadership and whether the model of charismatic leadership is a useful lens from which to study directors as leaders by examining leaders distance, shared leadership, and leadership self-schema” (Murphy, & Ensher, 2008 ).

In addition, since Klein and House has established that “ charisma resides not in a leader, not in a follower, but in the relationship between a leader who has charismatic qualities and a follower who is open to charisma, within a charisma – conducive environment” (1995, p.183 as cited by Murphy, & Ensher, 2008). My assumption agrees with the fact that television directors involve in the practice of leadership and are charismatic but for more accuracy, it will be necessary for the future research to interview their followers on the set which comprises of various departments like; actors, costumiers, lighting etc. about directors’ performance. The implication of this is that followers have a better understanding of their leader. Leaders can share any good report about him/her performance but followers remain the best evaluator of any leader. Seeing how director conveys their vision to their followers’ group from different point of view is the better way to establish a fact co-mingled with a desire to change the status quo and that desire is articulated in the vision” (Murphy, & Ensher, 2008 ).

Reference

Murphy, S. E., & Ensher, E. A. (2008). A qualitative analysis of charismatic leadership in

            creative teams: The case of television directors. Leadership Quarterly, 19(3), 335–352.