Validation of a German Version of the Ethical Leadership at Work Questionnaire by Kalshoven et al. (2011).

ABSTRACT: The present study evaluates the psychometric properties of a German version of the Ethical Leadership at Work questionnaire (ELW-D), and further embeds the construct of ethical leadership within its nomological network. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) based on the total sample of N = 363 employees support the assumed seven-factor structure of the German translation. Within a sub-sample of N = 133, the ELW-D shows positive correlations with related leadership behaviors (transformational leadership, contingent reward, and servant leadership), and negative correlations with destructive ones (passive leadership, autocratic leadership, and abusive supervision), approving convergent validity of the scale. Comparisons of correlated correlation coefficients reveal restrictions of its discrimin

SUBMITTER: Steinmann B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4815677 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature