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Do we measure leadership effectively? Articulating and evaluating scale development psychometrics for best practice
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Crawford, J and Kelder, J-A, Do we measure leadership effectively? Articulating and evaluating scale development psychometrics for best practice, The Leadership Quarterly, 30, (1) pp. 133-144. ISSN 1048-9843 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2018 Elsevier Inc.
Official URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.07.001
Abstract
Leadership assessment has been a particular point of difficulty for contemporary scholarship, with many practitioners rejecting academically-driven leadership instruments and scales and preferring their own, less rigorous, scales. We believe that current conceptualizations and measurements of leadership are problematic, indicated by contemporary challenges that can be widely understood as failures of leadership (e.g. the Australian Banking Royal Commission and Volkswagen's ‘Dieselgate’). Also, how effective leadership is measured needs to change. This paper presents a systematic review of 17 leadership scales developed in the new millennium. The majority of scales lack some degree of rigor. Our response has been to conduct eighteen critical checks over four stages of scale development: theory generation, item development, content validity, and empirical evaluation. On the premise that understanding past practices, with their limitations, can be used to drive forward a suite of more effective organizational tools, we provide best practice recommendations using contemporary psychometric research.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | scale development, leadership assessment, factor analysis, content adequacy, theory generation |
Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Research Group: | Strategy, management and organisational behaviour |
Research Field: | Organisational behaviour |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in commerce, management, tourism and services |
UTAS Author: | Crawford, J (Dr Joseph Crawford) |
UTAS Author: | Kelder, J-A (Dr Jo-Anne Kelder) |
ID Code: | 127215 |
Year Published: | 2019 (online first 2018) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 28 |
Deposited By: | TSBE |
Deposited On: | 2018-07-18 |
Last Modified: | 2019-08-28 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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