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Work: selection, leadership and performance

Empowering Leadership Questionnaire.

ELQ (Ahearne)

What it measures
Empowering leadership - 4 subdimensions: Enhancing the meaningfulness of work, Fostering participation in decision-making, Expressing confidence in high performance, Providing autonomy from bureaucratic constraints.
Length and format
12 items. Likert; follower report (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several incl. ES, ZH, DE, PT, TR (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
Ahearne, M., Mathieu, J., & Rapp, A. (2005). To empower or not to empower your sales force? Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 945-955. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.945

https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.945

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