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Least Preferred Coworker Scale.

LPC

What it measures
Leadership motivational orientation (relationship- vs task-motivated), inferred from ratings of one's least preferred coworker; core of Fiedler's contingency model
Length and format
16-25 bipolar adjective pairs (version-dependent). semantic-differential (8-pt bipolar) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
multiple research adaptations; count approx
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
Fiedler FE. A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness. McGraw-Hill, 1967.

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