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impediments. The aim of the study was to test the relationship between these variables and
creative organizational climate. Data were collected from 101 employees at a global company. The
result showed that the team climate and leadership style explained 63 per cent of the variance in
organizational climate. Further, it was found that academics perceived higher levels of creative
climate, as well as higher levels of change and employee oriented leader style.
5134.6 Preferred leadership behaviour: Demographic differences among some nigerian workers,
Andrew Mogaji, University of Lagos, Nigeria
This study was aimed at finding the demographic differences in the preferred leadership behaviour
among some Nigerian workers. Data were collected from 138 subjects including 98 males (71
Yorubas and 27 Ibos) and 31 females (21 Yorubas and 10 Ibos). Analysing data with t-statistics,
the results revealed significant sex and ethnic differences in autocratic leadership orientation.
There was a significant difference in democratic leadership orientation due to marital status. There
were also significant religious differences in both leadership orientations. The analysis with
One-way ANOVA revealed significant differences in both leadership orientations due to age but
none due to educational qualification.
5134.9 Operant competence management framework for enhancing competence management
and development in organisations in Africa, John C. Munene, Ronald Bbosa, Francis Eboyu,
Makerere University Institute of Psychology, Uganda
We present a competence management framework which differs from existing models of
competence by defining a competence as a relation between an employee and his/her job or work
environment. The model referred to as Operant Competence Analysis and Profiling assumes that
most elements of this relation remain tacit to employees at all levels and, faced with western
management theory and practice that are fundamentally ambiguous, competence management in
Africa should start with uncovering and making available to role incumbents the tacit elements in
this relation. This increases role clarity and opportunities for reflective learning. Supporting
evidence is provided.
5135 ORAL
Clinical/counseling psychology
Chair: José Luis Rodríguez Sánchez, Mexico
5135.1 The paths of the identity: Scholastic success and failure as a career, Gian Piero Turchi,
Alessia Appolonia, Luisa Orrù, Barbara Laliscia, Department of General Psychology, Faculty
of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
The aim of the research is to identify some discursive elements of the process of career
construction of students defined as successful. A protocol has been submitted to 164 students with
high scholastic output, coming from any level and type of school, as well as to 50 teachers with
which they interact. The analysis shows that the scholastic success (and failure) is a "career" and
not a phenomenon independent from the interactive matrix in which it is generated. The attention
is focused to the narrative processes of auto (students) and etero-attribution (teachers),
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