Tell us about your leadership style: A structured interview approach for assessing leadership behavior constructs
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Tell us about your leadership style : A structured interview approach for assessing leadership behavior constructs. / Heimann, Anna Luca; Ingold, Pia V.; Kleinmann, Martin.
I: Leadership Quarterly, Bind 31, Nr. 4, 101364, 08.2020.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Tell us about your leadership style
T2 - A structured interview approach for assessing leadership behavior constructs
AU - Heimann, Anna Luca
AU - Ingold, Pia V.
AU - Kleinmann, Martin
N1 - Funding Information: The study reported in this paper was supported by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant numbers 146039 and 175827). Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - It is widely recognized that leadership behaviors drive leaders' success. But despite the importance of assessing leadership behavior for selection and development, current measurement practices are limited. This study contributes to the literature by examining the structured interview method as a potential approach to assess leadership behavior. To this end, we developed a structured interview measuring constructs from Yukl's (2012) leadership taxonomy. Supervisors in diverse positions participated in the interview as part of a leadership assessment program. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the assumption that leadership constructs could be assessed as distinct interview dimensions. Results further showed that interview ratings predicted a variety of leadership outcomes (supervisors' annual income, ratings of situational leader effectiveness, subordinates' well-being and affective organizational commitment) beyond other relevant predictors. Findings offer implications on how to identify leaders who have a positive impact on their subordinates, and they inform us about conceptual differences between leadership measures.
AB - It is widely recognized that leadership behaviors drive leaders' success. But despite the importance of assessing leadership behavior for selection and development, current measurement practices are limited. This study contributes to the literature by examining the structured interview method as a potential approach to assess leadership behavior. To this end, we developed a structured interview measuring constructs from Yukl's (2012) leadership taxonomy. Supervisors in diverse positions participated in the interview as part of a leadership assessment program. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the assumption that leadership constructs could be assessed as distinct interview dimensions. Results further showed that interview ratings predicted a variety of leadership outcomes (supervisors' annual income, ratings of situational leader effectiveness, subordinates' well-being and affective organizational commitment) beyond other relevant predictors. Findings offer implications on how to identify leaders who have a positive impact on their subordinates, and they inform us about conceptual differences between leadership measures.
KW - Affective organizational commitment
KW - Incremental validity
KW - Leadership behavior
KW - Structured interviews
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076220425&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101364
DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101364
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85076220425
VL - 31
JO - Leadership Quarterly
JF - Leadership Quarterly
SN - 1048-9843
IS - 4
M1 - 101364
ER -
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