Abstract
This paper reports the adaptation and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) in a Spanish organizational context. In addition, this study empirically explores the positive relationship between identity leadership and followers’ work engagement as mediated by positive and negative job-related affect. A total of 854 employees from different organizations (53.6% female, 46.4% male; M = 40.7 years, SD = 11.5, 19-74) completed an online questionnaire. Descriptive analyses, as well as confirmatory factor analyses, were conducted. According to our results, the Spanish version of the ILI had adequate psychometric properties. The four dimensions obtained in other countries (i.e., identity prototypicality, identity advancement, identity entrepreneurship, and identity impresarioship) were replicated in our sample. Moreover, we found that only identity entrepreneurship significantly related to followers’ positive and negative affect at work, which in turn, related to reported work engagement. We conclude that the Spanish version of the ILI adequately measures identity leadership in organizations. Future studies can build on this instrument to assess and foster identity leadership among supervisors.
Highlights
Este artículo describe la adaptación y validación del Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) en contextos organizacionales en España
Given that social identity processes are guided by self-enhancement and uncertainty reduction (Hogg et al, 2004) and that leaders are considered to constitute sources of positive and negative emotions for employees at work (Arnold, 2017), we argue that an adequate social identity leadership management can foster followers’ positive affect and reduce their negative affect
Due to the χ2 statistic’s sensitivity to sample size, we considered other indices to evaluate model fit, such as the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), the comparative fit index (CFI), and the non-normed fit index (NNFI)
Summary
Este artículo describe la adaptación y validación del Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) en contextos organizacionales en España. The social identity approach to leadership has attracted increasing attention in the last decade (Epitropaki et al, 2017; Steffens, Haslam, Kerschreiter et al, 2014; van Dick & Monzani, 2020). According to this approach, leadership is considered a psychological group process of social influence. Leaders are expected to be more successful if they provide group-oriented leadership regarding a shared social identity (van Dick & Kerschreiter, 2016)
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