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Defense ARJ - Defense Acquisition University

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tAble of contents<br />

<strong>Defense</strong><br />

<strong>Acquisition</strong> Review Journal<br />

95<br />

115<br />

A note fRom the executive editoR<br />

does oRGAniZAtionAl level<br />

influence self-leAdeRshiP in the<br />

defense <strong>Acquisition</strong> woRKfoRce?<br />

Trudy C. DiLiello and Jeffery D. Houghton<br />

This article presents the findings of a study that investigated<br />

the relationships between self-leadership and creativity in the<br />

context of a defense acquisition organization and its employees.<br />

More specifically, this study examined differences in selfleadership,<br />

creativity, and perceived organizational support<br />

for creativity between line- and supervisory-level defense<br />

acquisition employees. The resultant analyses suggested that<br />

self-leadership was significantly related to creative potential<br />

and practiced creativity for both line- and supervisory-level<br />

employees, although there were no significant differences in<br />

overall levels of self-leadership between the two groups. In<br />

addition, the study findings revealed significant differences<br />

in creative potential, practiced creativity, gap scores, and<br />

perceptions of organizational support for creativity.<br />

lessons fRom the develoPment of ARmY sYstems<br />

William A. Lucas and Richard G. Rhoades<br />

Several of the statistically significant relationships found<br />

in this study of 13 Army systems involve factors that<br />

are related to the stability of the program. For example,<br />

uncertainty of a project’s future and funding cutbacks are<br />

found to have a strong predictive influence on development<br />

program effectiveness, which may be explained in part<br />

by their impact on program staffing turnover and the<br />

July 2008<br />

Vol. 16, no. 2

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