Motivation to Lead Scale.
MTL
Individual differences in the motivation to take on and persist in leadership roles across three components: affective-identity (enjoys leading), non-calculative (leads despite the costs) and social-normative (leads out of duty).
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 27 (9 per component). 5-pt agreement (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- DE, NL, ES, PT, ZH, KO, TR, FR and others; used in leader-development research across Europe and Asia.
- Licence
- open with attribution
Licence classification is a research judgement by the catalogue’s authors, not legal advice, and it can be out of date. Confirm terms with the copyright holder or publisher before using an instrument, especially for commercial use.
- Reference
- Chan, K.-Y., & Drasgow, F. (2001). Toward a theory of individual differences and leadership: Understanding the motivation to lead. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 481-498.
More in Work: selection, leadership and performance
- ASB (Tepper) - Abusive Supervision Scale
15 (also a 5-item short form). open with attribution.
- AC - Assessment Center exercises (method)
n/a (multiple exercises x competency dimensions, behaviourally coded). mixed.
- ALI - Authentic Leadership Inventory
14 (3+3+4+4 across the four components). open with attribution.
- ALQ - Authentic Leadership Questionnaire
16 items. copyrighted - commercial.
- Benchmarks 360 (Center for Creative Leadership)
~100+ (varies by edition; multi-rater). copyrighted - commercial.
- Burke LAI - Burke Learning Agility Inventory
~38 (9 dimensions). copyrighted - commercial.
Use this instrument with your own participants
Research Seat is our white-label assessment platform for research teams and academics: we host and deliver an instrument under your branding, score it, and hand back the data. Whether we can deliver this particular one depends on its licence, which here is open with attribution. Tell us what you are measuring and we will say what is possible.