instrument developed by the researcher and administered to active Farm Bureau

members. This instrument measured respondent attitude/will/desire regarding leadership

to determine if leadership apathy exists. Descriptive statistics analyzed the demographic

variables of respondents. A demographic section was included at the end of both

quantitative instruments to collect personal information about survey respondents. The

instruments used in this study were reviewed by a panel of experts and pilot tested with

comparable farm bureau groups to ensure reliability and validity.

 For this study, one population, the Florida Farm Bureau organization, was used.

Three subsets of this population were included in this population. The first subset was

the leadership of the FFBF, which included: the president of the board of directors,

administrative and legal counsel, director of the agricultural policy division, director of

public relations, the vice president of the board of directors, the coordinator of national

affairs, and the executive director of the Dade County Farm Bureau. These individuals

participated in the first part of this study, individual interviews using a long interview

format.

 The second subset of the population was composed of members of local county

farm bureau boards. A sample of this sub-population was administered the survey that

was derived from the responses to the interview questionnaires given to the first group of

respondents.

 The third subset of the population was a sample of active Florida Farm Bureau

members. This group received the third instrument used in this study, a leadership

behavior instrument which was composed of three parts: a motivation sources inventory,