Identity Leadership Going Global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) across 20 Countries
Van Dick, Rolf; Lemoine, Jérémy E; Steffens, Niklas K.; Kerschreiter, Rudolf; Akfirat, Serap Arslan; Avanzi, Lorenzo; Dumont, K; Epitropaki, Olga; Fransen, Katrien; Giessner, Steffen Robert; González, Roberto; Kark, Ronit; Lipponen, Jukka; Markovits, Yannis; Monzani, Lucas; Orosz, Gábor; Pandey, Diwakar; Roland-Levy, Christine; Schuh, Sebastian C; Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Song, Lynda Jiwen; Stouten, Jeroen; Tatachari, Srinivasan; Valdenegro, Daniel; van Bunderen, Lisanne; Voros, Viktor; Wong, Sut I; Zhang, Xin-an; Haslam, Alexander
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Van Dick R, Lemoine, Steffens NK, Kerschreiter R, Akfirat SA, Avanzi L, Dumont K, Epitropaki O, Fransen K, Giessner SR, González R, Kark R, Lipponen J, Markovits Y, Monzani L, Orosz G, Pandey D, Roland-Levy C, Schuh SC, Sekiguchi T, Song LJ, Stouten J, Tatachari S, Valdenegro D, van Bunderen L, Voros V, Wong SIW, Zhang X, Haslam A. Identity Leadership Going Global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) across 20 Countries. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joop.12223Abstract
Recent theorizing applying the social identity approach to leadership proposes a four
dimensional model of identity leadership that centers on leaders’ management of a shared
sense of “we” and “us”. The present research validates a scale assessing this model — the
Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI). We present results from an international project with data
from all six continents and from more than 20 countries/regions with 5,290 participants. The
ILI was translated (using back-translation methods) into 13 different languages (available in
the Appendix) and used along with measures of other leadership constructs (i.e. LMX,
transformational, and authentic leadership) as well as employee attitudes and (self-reported)
behaviors — namely identification, trust in the leader, job satisfaction, innovative work
behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, and burnout. Results provide consistent support
for the construct, discriminant, and criterion validity of the ILI across countries. We show that
the four dimensions of identity leadership are distinguishable and that they relate to important
work-related attitudes and behaviors above and beyond other leadership constructs. Finally,
we also validate a short form of the ILI, noting that is likely to have particular utility in
applied contexts.