STUDENT LEADERSHIP, CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL SUCCESS PROFILES

Jasminka Samardzija (), Joseph Kevin Walker () and Milena Kuznin ()
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Jasminka Samardzija: RIT Croatia, Zagreb
Joseph Kevin Walker: RIT Croatia, Dubrovnik
Milena Kuznin: RIT Croatia, Dubrovnik

Economic Thought and Practice, 2017, vol. 26, issue 1, 343-361

Abstract: The main goal of this empirical research was to define those predominant leadership characteristics and behaviours found among all four generations of undergraduates at RIT Croatia's Dubrovnik campus. The basic research question was: What is the empirical basis for classifying students into homogeneous groups? The first part of the questionnaire was based on The Big Five Model of Personality characteristics, but the principal research method was the leadership characteristics, career development, and personal success questionnaire created by applying inductive research methodologies to 100 Croatian leaders’ interviews. In order to answer the research question, four cluster analyses were conducted. The null hypothesis that there is not a correlation between leadership characteristics among an undergraduate population and demographic variables (number of siblings, place of growing up - city, small place, and large city) was accepted. Based on The Big Five Model of Personality the first cluster analysis generated three homogenous groups of students. The basis for the second cluster analysis was leadership characteristics of RIT Croatia students. The third cluster analysis depended on what represents confirmation of personal success. The final, fourth, cluster analysis was based on the subjective dimension of career development expectation. All four cluster analyses produced three distinct clusters.

Keywords: leadership characteristics; student development; student leadership profile; career development; personal success (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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