MEASURING PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: DEVELOPING SCALES FOR FOUR KEY PUBLIC LEADERSHIP ROLES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tummers, Lars; Knies, Eva
• 署名单位: Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Utrecht University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12224
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 433-451
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; service motivation; transformational leadership; ACCOUNTABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; antecedents; governance; employees; trust; work

摘要

This article on public leadership contributes to the literature by focusing on the 'public' aspect of leadership and developing quantitative scales for measuring four public leadership roles. These roles all refer to the extent to which public leaders actively support their employees in dealing with public sector issues: (1) accountability leadership, (2) rule-following leadership, (3) political loyalty leadership, and (4) network governance leadership. We tested the factor structure using exploratory and confirmatory analyses, with satisfactory results. Also, as expected, the scales for public leadership relate to transformational leadership and leadership effectiveness. The scales also correlate with organizational commitment, work engagement and turnover intention. These results indicate that our four scales of public leadership work adequately. We conclude with a future research agenda on how the scales can be used in survey and experimental research.