Adaptive Leadership (Northouse)
LeadershipReliability: alpha 0.893 sample items
About this scale
A 30-item measure of adaptive leadership behaviours — getting on the balcony, identifying the adaptive challenge, regulating distress, maintaining disciplined attention, giving the work back to the people, and protecting voices of leadership from below.
Sample item(s)
“My leader sees the bigger picture of organizational challenges”
“My leader helps the team make sense of changes”
“My leader pushes the team to confront difficult realities”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.89. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Pair with Heifetz adaptive leadership theory.
Source & citation
Northouse, P. G. (2018): Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Sage.
Northouse, P. G. (2018): Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Sage.
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