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Identification of Minority Community Leadership for Involvement in Transportation Project Planning
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1977-01-01
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Edition:Interim - September, 1974 - January, 1977
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Abstract:The delineation of representative leaders in minority subareas for participation in transportation project planning constitutes the overall objective for the report. Techniques for leadership identification were derived from existing sociological literature and adapted for use in smaller community subareas in both urban and rural locales. Specifically, objectives pursued in the preparation of the report include the following: (1) to outline major methods of leadership identification which may be adapted to minority local areas, (2) to assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of the proposed techniques with respect to project planning in minority communities; (3) to evaluate the representativeness" of leaders identified by the methods; and (4) to propose a strategy for the involvement of identified representatives in project planning and implementation. Three general techniques were identified: (1) the positional approach, for which officership of formal and informal organizations constitutes leadership; (2) the decisional approach, which defines leadership in terms of an individual's influence in overt issues, and (3) the reputation approach which gauges influence by other resident's evaluation of an individual's leadership capabilities.
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