Abstract
Despite of the huge number of leadership behavior description measures in the literature, construct assessment and validation studies are very rare in literature. In this sense, this survey, which focused on the construct re-assessment and validation of leadership behavior taxonomy, is expected to contribute to leadership literature. Yukl’s Leadership Behavior Taxonomy (LBT) is focused on and the constructs of LBT have been evaluated in terms of content validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity and predictive validity in this study. The survey was conducted on 445 middle level managers of 188 large-scale firms operating in manufactory industry and 550 managers operating in service industry in Turkey. Data obtained from 445 middle level managers operating in manufacturing industry and 550 managers operating in service industry were analyzed through the SPSS and AMOS statistical packet programs. The findings of this survey revealed that 23 items-three factors-LBT model has better fit for the managers of both manufacturing and service industry in Turkey.
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