Identity leadership going global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory across 20 countries

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Recent theorizing applying the social identity approach to leadership proposes a four‐dimensional model of identity leadership that centres on leaders’ management of a shared sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’. This 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 S1) and used along with measures of other leadership constructs (i.e., leader–member exchange [LMX ], transformational leadership, and authentic leadership) as well as employee attitudes and (self‐reported) behaviours – namely identification, trust in the leader, job satisfaction, innovative work behaviour, organizational citizenship behaviour, 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 behaviours 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.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	This paper has 29 authors. You can scroll the list below to see them all or them all. van Dick, R Lemoine, JE Steffens, NK Kerschreiter, R Akfirat, SA Avanzi, L Dumont, K Epitropaki, O Fransen, K Giessner, S González, R Kark, R Lipponen, J Markovits, Y Monzani, L Orosz, G Pandey, D Roland-Lévy, C Schuh, S Sekiguchi, T Song, LJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0969-4091 Stouten, J Tatachari, S Valdenegro, D van Bunderen, L Vörös, V Wong, SI Zhang, X-A Haslam, SA
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2018 The British Psychological Society. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: van Dick, R., Lemoine, J.E., Steffens, N.K., Kerschreiter, R., Akfirat, S.A., Avanzi, L., Dumont, K., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., Giessner, S., González, R., Kark, R., Lipponen, J., Markovits, Y., Monzani, L., Orosz, G., Pandey, D., Roland‐Lévy, C., Schuh, S., Sekiguchi, T., Song, L.J., Stouten, J., Tatachari, S., Valdenegro, D., van Bunderen, L., Vörös, V., Wong, S.I., Zhang, X.‐a. and Haslam, S.A. (2018), Identity leadership going global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory across 20 countries. J Occup Organ Psychol, 91: 697-728, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12223. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	leadership; social identity; Identity Leadership Inventory; cross‐cultural validation
Dates:	Published: December 2018 Published (online): 18 May 2018
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2020 10:48
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2020 10:48
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Wiley
Identification Number:	10.1111/joop.12223
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163285

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