Saturday, 3:15pm-4:45pm

This session will consist of an interactive panel discussion with three leadership experts. The panelists will engage in a lively discussion and debate of the leadership issues and research topics that will be "hot topics" as we move into the 21^st century. Their discussion will cover issues such as the changing definition and concept of leadership for today and tomorrow’s organizations, the need for and creation of leadership development system embedded within the organization, and functional flexibility as a requisite leader attribute for effectiveness at upper levels of the organization.

Dr. McCauley is currently Vice President of New Initiatives at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Since joining CCL in 1984, Dr. McCauley's work has focused on developing knowledge and products to enhance leadership development for managers. Her research has examined various development strategies: 360-degree feedback, training programs, challenging job assignments, and developmental relationships. Dr. McCauley's work has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, and Human Resource Development Review. She is author of several management development tools, including BenchmarksÒ (a 360-degree feedback instrument) and the Job Challenge Profile (an assessment of on-the-job learning opportunities). She is also co-editor with Russ Moxley and Ellen Van Velsor of the Center for Creative Leadership's Handbook of Leadership Development (Jossey-Bass, 1998). In her role as Vice President, Dr. McCauley oversees CCL's efforts to create new knowledge and products in the areas of global leadership, team effectiveness, leadership in the post-industrial organization, and leadership development systems. She received her Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Georgia in the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

Personnel Decisions' Dr. Paul Tesluk is currently Assistant Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Tulane University. As of fall 1999, he will be Assistant Professor of Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Dr. Tesluk received his B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell and his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Penn State University in 1996. His research interests include the design and implementation of high-involvement workplace systems, work team performance, and work experience and performance -- all from a perspective that integrates multiple levels of analysis. Dr. Tesluk's work has been published in Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, among other journals, and he has co-authored several book chapters. In 1998, he was the co-recipient of the S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award presented by SIOP. Dr. Tesluk's recent consulting and applied research experiences related to leadership have been in the form of working with and studying: (1) several state agencies in Pennsylvania that have been transitioning to involvement work practices and total quality organizations and the role of leadership in the successful adoption and implementation of these practices; (2) leadership strategies related to implementing innovative reward systems at Laitram Corporation; and (3) leadership factors associated with team effectiveness at Xerox.

Dr. Stephen J. Zaccaro is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Associate Director in the Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Studies at George Mason University. He has published articles on cohesion, leadership, organizational behavior and work attitudes in journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Military Psychology, Group and Organizational Studies, Organizational Behavioral and Human Decision Processes, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Dr. Zaccaro also edited (with Anne Riley) a book, entitled Occupational Stress and Organizational Effectiveness, and published chapters on work stress, group processes, and team performance. He authored a book for the Army Research Institute, entitled, Model and Theories of Executive Leadership, and was also co-editor (with Edwin Fleishman and Michael Mumford) of three special issues of Leadership Quarterly on individual differences and leadership. In addition, Dr. Zaccaro has managed and directed funded projects, including Small Business Research Initiative Grants, in the areas of team performance and shared mental models, leadership training, cognitive and metacognitive leadership capacities, and executive leadership.