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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Fariborz M. Tehrani

more guidance to focus on high taskbehaviors. These behaviors typically reflect work structure, organization, schedule, and resourceallocation.Relationship or supportive behavior, on the other hand, is interpreted as psychological aspects ofmaturity dimension and correlates with the confidence of person to perform. The matchingleadership style provides more support for high relationship behavior. This behavior is oftencharacterized by giving considerations to emotional state of the performer and developing mutualrespect and trust, as well as improving communication and other soft skills. As a person maturesin certain performance, the directive and supportive behaviors advance through four zones ofleadership style. This cycle will require the

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Lily Gossage

groups so that individuals areable to develop a sense of diversity within an inclusive environment.Defining the ProblemThe supposition that lack of perceived similarity affects the level of career interest and identitydevelopment of Latino/Hispanic engineering students prompts minority engineering programs toarrange for ethnically/racially-themed activities and events. These programs though well-intentioned, aim less at improving math skills or engineering career awareness as much as theyare valued for instilling students’ personal confidence, soft skills, and camaraderie within anenvironment of racially/ethnically like peers. Even while the dictum of these programs is to‘recruit and retain more under-represented minorities’, few activities

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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