Team Self-Leadership (Bligh, Pearce & Kohles)
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.873 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of self-leadership at the team level — collective behaviour-focused strategies, collective natural reward strategies, and collective constructive thought patterns.
Sample item(s)
“My team sets specific goals for our own performance”
“My team rewards itself for accomplishing important tasks”
“My team thinks about and confronts the challenging assumptions of our work”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.87. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Aggregate to team level with rwg/ICC justification.
Source & citation
Bligh, M. C., Pearce, C. L., & Kohles, J. C. (2006): The importance of self- and shared leadership in team based knowledge work: A meso-level model of leadership dynamics. Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 296–318.
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