Development and Validation of a Spanish Short Servant Leadership Survey (SSLS6-3F) among Spanish Workers in Religious Non-Profit Organizations

Mar Ortiz-Gómez, Gabriele Giorgi, Horacio Molina-Sánchez and Antonio Ariza-Montes
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Mar Ortiz-Gómez: Financial Economics and Accounting Department, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Gabriele Giorgi: Department of Psychology, European University, 00163 Rome, Italy
Horacio Molina-Sánchez: Financial Economics and Accounting Department, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Antonio Ariza-Montes: Department of Management, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: Religious non-profit organizations are becoming increasingly important in the third sector in a wide range of countries, where they are currently leading players in different areas, such as education, healthcare, and social work. These organizations have the peculiarity of providing a service to their users while transmitting them the values of their mission statement. An usually employed and effective management strategy for these institutions is a servant leadership style. This article seeks to introduce a theoretical discussion of this leadership approach by providing a Spanish version of an instrument for measuring servant leadership in Spanish religious non-profit institutions. To this end, workers of different Spanish faith-based non-profit organizations of the third sector, a relatively unexplored context, were analyzed after obtaining 463 valid questionnaires. This study used the Spanish translation of a seven-item and three-factor servant leadership scale. An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed. The results confirm that the six-item and three-factor servant leadership scale was the most effective scale to measure this construct. In conclusion, this research covers a notable research gap by providing a reliable and valid Spanish short version of the servant leadership scale for workers of Spanish religious non-profit organizations.

Keywords: servant leadership; scale validation; religious non-profit organizations; exploratory factor analysis (EFA); confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); authentic leadership; transactional leadership; authenticity; work engagement; subjective wellbeing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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