The Leadership Quarterly will publish a special issue on The Evaluation of Leadership Development. This will be the first time a special issue has focused on the evaluation of leadership development. Evaluation of leadership development efforts presents special challenges relative to program evaluation in other settings. Methods are available to meet those challenges, but there are few published examples of such methods being applied in research or practice. This issue will provide a venue for the publication of rigorous, scholarly work on the topic of leadership development evaluation, with articles selected to promote this important practice and fuel future research.

The Guest Editors seek manuscripts which demonstrate specific evaluation methodologies or implementations in a variety of leadership development contexts. Manuscripts should focus on the process of evaluation and not on evaluation findings. Preference will be given to empirical articles, but theoretical manuscripts are also invited.

Submission Guidelines: Initial submissions must be received by April 1, 2008. Submissions will be accepted electronically, in Microsoft Word format, and can be e-mailed to either guest editor (contact information below). Manuscripts should not exceed 45 pages in length and should be prepared according to APA Style.

Special Issue Editors: The guest editors for this special issue are Kelly Hannum and Bart Craig. Inquiries may be directed to either guest editor.

Kelly Hannum
Center for Creative Leadership
hannumk@leaders.ccl.org
(336) 286-4425

Bart Craig
Department of Psychology
North Carolina State University
bart_craig@ncsu.edu
(919) 513-0518