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Charismatic leadership in organizations: Perceived behavioral attributes and their measurement
Author(s) -
Conger Jay A.,
Kanungo Rabindra N.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030150508
Subject(s) - psychology , conger , discriminant validity , charisma , measure (data warehouse) , charismatic authority , convergent validity , social psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , identification (biology) , confirmatory factor analysis , transformational leadership , applied psychology , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , internal consistency , developmental psychology , statistics , computer science , political science , data mining , mathematics , law , biology , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , physics , botany , fishery
Recent interest in the charismatic leadership role of managers in organizations calls for the identification and measurement of perceived behavior characteristics of such leadership. This article reports on the development of a questionnaire measure of the perceived behavioral dimensions of charismatic leadership proposed by the Conger and Kanungo (1987, 1988) model. Data were collected from 488 managers belonging to four organizations located in the U.S.A. and Canada. Analysis of the results revealed sound psychometric properties of the measure with adequate reliability, convergent and discriminant validity coefficients, and a stable factor structure. Implications of the measure for future research and practice are discussed.