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Portuguese version of Brown, Treviño and Harrison’s Ethical Leadership Scale: Study of its psychometric properties
Journal Title
Cogent Business and Management
Year (definitive publication)
2022
Language
English
Country
Norway
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Abstract
This paper investigates the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Ethical Leadership Scale across five field studies. The Portuguese ELS (P-ELS) was compared with subscales of a reduced version of the Ethical Leadership at Work questionnaire to check convergent validity (CFI = .95; TLI = .95; RMSEA = .06) and with subscales of organizational justice scale to confirm discriminant validity (all r < .18; p < .05). To assess criterion validity, the extent of the P-ELS’s ability to predict organizational ethical climate was tested (all ? coefficients
p < .01, except for profit subscale). To check nomological validity, the relationship between ethical leadership and job-related affective well-being mediated by leader member exchange quality was analyzed (B indirect effect = 0.21; 95% CI = 0.02, 0.41).
Results support P-ELS’s unidimensional structure and suggest that it has good construct validity and reliability, therefore, being a useful tool to assess leaders’ ethical behaviors in the workplace.
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Keywords
Ethical Leadership Scale,Scale validation,Construct validity,Reliability,Portuguese version
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Mathematics - Natural Sciences
- Economics and Business - Social Sciences
- Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| UID/03125/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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