Pygmalion Effect and Classroom Networks: Evidence from Schools in Pakistan

The aim of this study was to investigate which leader behaviors mediate the relationship between leader expectations and employee engagement in learning activities. Based on Rosenthal’s Pygmalion model, five potential mediators of the Pygmalion effect were distinguished: leader—member exchange relationship, goal setting (i.e., goal specificity, goal difficulty), providing learning opportunities, and feedback. Data from 904 manager—subordinate dyads in six organizations showed that leader expectations were related to employee engagement in learning activities. Goal specificity, goal difficulty, and providing learning opportunities proved to be mediators. These findings suggest that goal setting lies at the heart of the Pygmalion effect.

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Pygmalion Effect and Classroom Networks: Evidence from Schools in Pakistan

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials ◽

10.1257/rct.7846-1.0 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ronak Jain ◽

Vatsal Khandelwal

Keyword(s):

Pygmalion Effect

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The research method of conceptual frameworks. The case of Pygmalion effect: A leadership style or self-fulfilling prophecy?

The Hungarian Educational Research Journal ◽

10.1556/063.9.2019.3.41 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 487-510

Author(s):

Sejla Almadi

Keyword(s):

Leadership Style ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Educational Technology Research ◽

Research Subject ◽

Conceptual Frameworks ◽

Pygmalion Effect ◽

Less Is More ◽

Database Research ◽

The Subject

Conceptual frameworks are conjectural/hypothetical research tools that are particularly important and widely used in the disciplined inquiry, including educational (technology) research. However, there is a lack of guidance on how to construct them. Hence, the objective of the current research was to provide a methodological perspective through a case study on how to develop such a framework for deductive research with a complex research subject. To this end, a five-step technique was constructed and implemented: text database, research panorama, authors’ network and thread, location, and definition. The case of Pygmalion effect was actual and significant as a recent meta-analysis found it to have an outstanding impact, among other leadership interventions, and relevant to educational research as it was first experimented in educational context. The conclusion found the five steps to be intertwined as they were built upon each other, carried the thread forward and opened it up deeper and closer to the research subject by each section. The errors and limitations involved uniqueness, availability, less is more, meaningfulness, approach, and space. Hence, the recommendations were defined as the regard for the complexity of the research subject and the approach to which the defined steps were delegated, the preliminary search on the most up-to-date academic papers on the subject, the only necessary number of collected sources and classes, the sense-making in implementing the steps, and the adaptation to longer essays, theses, or to prepare the foundation of research proposals.

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