The principled leadership scale: An integration of value-based leadership
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The principled leadership scale: An integration of value-based leadership | |
| Creator | Hendrikz, Karen Engelbrecht, Amos S. | |
| Description | Orientation: A need exists to investigate leader behaviour necessary to curb the corruption that has infected and weakened South Africa’s moral fibre. Such leader behaviour would need to be underpinned by a set of universal moral values.Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a new measure, the principled leadership scale (PLS), by integrating the value-based behaviours inherent in transformational, servant, authentic and ethical leadership.Motivation for the study: Leader behaviour intrinsic to value-based leadership was found to be closely aligned with universal moral values. Because the study found a considerable overlap between the behaviours mentioned in the value-based leadership theories, it sought to integrate these behaviours under one construct and to develop a reliable and valid scale to assess this construct.Research approach/design and method: Data from the quantitative study were analysed by means of item analysis, exploratory and confirmatory bi-factor analysis conducted via structural equation modelling.Main findings: The confirmatory bi-factor solution corroborated a strong general principled leadership factor and four moderately weak group factors. The statistical analyses provided good fit of the PLS measurement model with the empirical data.Practical and managerial implications: The study found acceptable measurement properties of the PLS that may be used for applications, such as the selecting, training and developing of ethical leadership in organisations.Contribution/value-add: The study adds value in that it is the first to integrate the four value-based leadership theories under one construct and to develop a potential psychometrically sound instrument to measure principled leadership. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2019-03-27 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v45i0.1553 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 45 (2019); 10 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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