The Cross-Cultural Invariance of the Servant Leadership Survey: A Comparative Study across Eight Countries

Dirk Van Dierendonck, Milton Sousa, Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir, Andrea Bobbio, Jari Hakanen, Armin Pircher Verdorfer, Emin Cihan Duyan and Raquel Rodriguez-Carvajal
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Dirk Van Dierendonck: Rotterdam School of Managemen, Erasmus University, Burg Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam 3000 DR, The Netherlands
Milton Sousa: NOVA School of Business and Economics, Lisboa 1099-032, Portugal
Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir: Faculty of Business, University Bifrost, Bifröst 311, Iceland
Andrea Bobbio: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua, Via Venezia n. 14, Padova PD 35131, Italy
Jari Hakanen: Työterveyslaitos, PL 40 00251 Helsinki, Finland
Armin Pircher Verdorfer: School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Emin Cihan Duyan: Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Anadolu University, 26470 Tepebaşı/Eskişehir Province, Turkey
Raquel Rodriguez-Carvajal: Department of Biological and Health Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Administrative Sciences, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: This paper tests and confirms the cross-cultural equivalence of the Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) in eight countries and languages: The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Finland. A composite sample consisting of 5201 respondents from eight countries that all filled out the SLS was used. A three-step approach was adopted to test configural invariance, measurement equivalence, and structural equivalence. For the full 30-item version of the SLS, configural invariance and partial measurement equivalence were confirmed. Implications of these results for the use of the SLS within cross-cultural studies are discussed.

Keywords: servant leadership; cross-cultural; measurement equivalence (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: 2017
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