Authentic Leadership Inventory.
ALI
Authentic leadership - 4 components: Self-awareness, Relational transparency, Internalized moral perspective, Balanced processing. The open, publicly available alternative to the (commercial) ALQ.
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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).
- 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
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