This second leadership symposium focused on the new directions leadership research is taking, and found a recurring theme in the current literature to be situational approaches to leadership. The contributors James C. Taylor, University of California; Robert J. House, University of Toronto; Gary Dessler, Florida International University; Robert D. Rossel, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Richard N. Osborn, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Martin M. Chemers, University of Utah; Robert W. Rice, University of Utah; George F. Farris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Steven Kerr, Ohio State University; John W. Slocum, Jr., Pennsylvania State University; Bernard M. Bass, University of Rochester; Enzo R. Valenzi, University of Rochester; Eric P. Prien, Memphis State University; Joseph A. Olmstead, Fort Benning, Georgia; T. Owen Jacobs, Fort Benning, Georgia; Abraham K. Korman, City University of New York.