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Leadership as social identity management : introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

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10/2014
Author
Steffens, Niklas K.
Haslam, S. Alexander
Reicher, Stephen D.
Platow, Michael J.
Fransen, Katrien
Yang, Jie
Ryan, Michelle K.
Jetten, Jolanda
Peters, Kim
Boen, Filip
Keywords
Leadership
Social identity
Self-categorization
Scale development
Identity leadership
BF Psychology
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
Although nearly two decades of research have provided support for the social identity approach to leadership, most previous work has focused on leaders' identity prototypicality while neglecting the assessment of other equally important dimensions of social identity management. However, recent theoretical developments have argued that in order to mobilize and direct followers' energies, leaders need not only to ‘be one of us’ (identity prototypicality), but also to ‘do it for us’ (identity advancement), to ‘craft a sense of us’ (identity entrepreneurship), and to ‘embed a sense of us’ (identity impresarioship). In the present research we develop and validate an Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) that assesses these dimensions in different contexts and with diverse samples from the US, China, and Belgium. Study 1 demonstrates that the scale has content validity such that the items meaningfully differentiate between the four dimensions. Studies 2, 3, and 4 provide evidence for the scale's construct validity (distinguishing between dimensions), discriminant validity (distinguishing identity leadership from authentic leadership, leaders' charisma, and perceived leader quality), and criterion validity (relating the ILI to key leadership outcomes). We conclude that by assessing multiple facets of leaders' social identity management the ILI has significant utility for both theory and practice.
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Steffens , N K , Haslam , S A , Reicher , S D , Platow , M J , Fransen , K , Yang , J , Ryan , M K , Jetten , J , Peters , K & Boen , F 2014 , ' Leadership as social identity management : introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model ' , The Leadership Quarterly , vol. 25 , no. 5 , pp. 1001-1024 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.05.002
Publication
The Leadership Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.05.002
ISSN
1048-9843
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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This work has been supported by a grant (FL110100199) from the Australian Research Council awarded to the second author, a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders awarded to the fifth author, and a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC no. 70962001) awarded to the sixth author.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20348

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