Investigating the Reliability and Validity of the Leadership Practices Inventory ®

Barry Z. Posner
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Barry Z. Posner: Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA

Administrative Sciences, 2016, vol. 6, issue 4, 1-23

Abstract: This review explains the origins of the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) as an empirical instrument to measure The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership framework, a major transformational leadership model. The essential psychometric properties of the LPI are investigated using both the LPI normative database, with nearly 2.8 million respondents, as well as reviewing pertinent findings of several hundred studies conducted worldwide by scholars utilizing the LPI in their research. Issues of both reliability and validity are considered, with the conclusion that the LPI is quite robust and applicable across a variety of settings and populations.

Keywords: leadership; leadership practices inventory; The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership; leadership and gender; leadership and ethnicity; cross-cultural leadership; leadership and engagement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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