Rotation designs in leadership research

Abstract A rotation design involves placing an individual into different groups with different group members and investigating the consistency of an individual's behavior. Rotation designs have been used to investigate coalition formation, group interaction rates, and, most frequently, emergent leadership. Despite the interest in the rotation design, there is little formal work on the statistical analysis of data from this design. A description of rotation designs and a brief overview of past research using these designs is presented as well as a general strategy for the analysis of data from rotation designs. The analysis for rotation designs, which is aided by a computer software program ROTO (a program specifically designed to analyze rotation designs), is explicated. Working with data from two studies, examples of how the analyses are performed and interpretations of the results are presented for variables that are dyadic (each member rates the group), individual-unchanging (individual difference measures), and group-level (one score for each group).

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