A questionnaire used often to measure transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership is che Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire developed by Bass (Bass & Avolio, 1989). This study aims to test the factor structure of the MLQ as developed by Bass & Avolio. The MLQ-8Y was analysed using data collected in Dutch organizations. Seven hundred employees from eight organizations rated th...

Retail managers were examined to determine their leadership styles and any potential correlations to conflict management styles. Research findings suggest that successful retail managers exhibit transformational leadership styles, and those that exhibit laissez-faire leadership is strongly correlated with avoidance conflict management style. The Conflict Management Style (CMS) and Multi Leaders...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine intercorrelational relations among the selfreport behavioral construct Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) 5X transformational and transactional subscales and the Tacit Knowledge for Military Leaders Inventory (TKML) leader-level specific situational judgment test scenarios. Design/methodology/approach: Two leadership measures, the beha...

Bass and his colleagues initiated the empirical investigation of transformational and transactional leadership two decades ago. They proposed that transformational leadership is comprised of four dimensions, that transactional leadership is composed of three dimensions, and that an additional category of non-leadership exists (laissez-faire leadership). The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire ...

This investigation examines the relations between transforma-tional/transactional leadership and performance indicators of 20 diierent banks, using a sample of some 1500 observations. Leadership behavior is measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), which i s used for the rst time in the German-speaking area. The psychometric quality of the German MLQ is analyzed and found to b...

BACKGROUND Outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. Thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. The present study was conducted to develop an instrument for measuri...

One of the primary dimensions of the multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) developed by Bass and associates is idealized influence, or charisma. However, there has been very little empirical support for this dimension in a number of previous studies. We argue that this lack of support is due to the attributional nature of charisma and the situational impact on the existence of, or the need...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between employees' perceptions of their immediate supervisors' relations-oriented and task-oriented leadership behaviors and different types of organizational commitment. Bass & Avolio's (1995) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ Form 5X) was used to measure relations-oriented and task-oriented leadership behaviors. Meyer & ...

Relationships of gender, age, and education to leadership styles and leaders’ infl uence tactics were examined with 56 leaders and 234 followers from a variety of organizations. Leadership behaviors were measured with the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ—rater version). Infl uence tactics were measured with Yukl’s Infl uence Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ). Multivariate Analysis of Varia...

background: outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. the present study was conducted to develop an instrument for measur...