Paternalistic Leadership Scale.

PLS

What it measures

Paternalistic leadership in Chinese and other collectivist organizational cultures across three dimensions: authoritarianism, benevolence and moral leadership.

Length and format

26 in the most-used version (authoritarianism 9, benevolence 11, moral leadership 6); item counts vary across published versions. 6-pt agreement (subordinate rating of the supervisor) (informant/observer report)

Language versions

Chinese original (traditional and simplified); English, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Urdu and Arabic versions in wide use across the indigenous-leadership literature.

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

Cheng, B.-S., Chou, L.-F., Wu, T.-Y., Huang, M.-P., & Farh, J.-L. (2004). Paternalistic leadership and subordinate responses: Establishing a leadership model in Chinese organizations. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 7(1), 89-117.