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Authentic Leadership Inventory.

ALI

What it measures
Authentic leadership - 4 components: Self-awareness, Relational transparency, Internalized moral perspective, Balanced processing. The open, publicly available alternative to the (commercial) ALQ.
Length and format
14 (3+3+4+4 across the four components). 5-point Likert; rater (follower) report (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several incl. PT (Brazil), DE (modified), ES (validated adaptations).
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Neider, L. L., & Schriesheim, C. A. (2011). The Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI): Development and empirical tests. The Leadership Quarterly, 22(6), 1146-1164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.09.008

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.09.008

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