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  • 1.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-15-2016 15:04

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 


    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     






  • 2.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-18-2016 19:51
    Hi Susan,

    You can find a scale of perceived leadership effectiveness in:

    Giessner, S. R., & van Knippenberg, D. (2008). "License to fail": Goal definition, leader group prototypicality, and perceptions of leadership effectiveness after leader failure. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105(1), 14-35.

    Best,
    Gustavo M. Tavares

    Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:03:42 -0400
    From: sja@UMICH.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 


    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     







  • 3.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-18-2016 21:44
    Hi Susan,

    I was also trying to measure managers' perceptions of their subordinates' leadership potential in one of my research projects. I did a thorough literature search (roughly two years ago) but was not able to find any "convenience" scale that I could simply use or adapt in my own research. Instead, I came across many studies which discussed the use of comprehensive assessment centers in evaluating one's leadership potential. It takes about 30 minutes to complete all the assessment center procedures.  

    While those assessment center tactics tend to vary in terms of the dimensions of leadership traits/skills/competences that are examined, it appears to me that there are some "common cores" included in those assessment centers such as certain leadership relevant traits (e.g., openness, persistence, resilience, optimism, learning orientation, focus), motivational drivers (of taking the lead), emotional control, situational awareness, people skills, and cognitive problem-solving skills. 

    To simplify this comprehensive assessment procedure so as to facilitate a typical survey research where a manager would need to rate on multiple subordinates, I eventually developed 21 items covering the aspects mentioned above. Obviously from the method standpoint that was not a scientific solution... In that research I also used the Motivation to Lead (MTL) scale developed by Chan and Drasgow (2001), which was suggested to be an effective and strong predictor of one's leadership potential. Yet MTL itself is not a scale intended to measure the actual leadership potential.  

    I wonder if the time has come to the point where a comprehensive scale development and validation study could help the field to identify a simpler way of assessing one's leadership potential. And if anyone has good recommendations about the measurement of leadership potential, I'd be interested to know as well. 

    Thanks!


    Reference:

    Chan, K. Y., & Drasgow, F. (2001). Toward a theory of individual differences and leadership: understanding the motivation to lead. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 481-498.



    Best,

    Lei 





    On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Susan Ashford <sja@umich.edu> wrote:

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 


    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     







    --

    Lei Huang, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Management
    Raymond J. Harbert College of Business
    Auburn University
    Auburn, AL 36849


    "Being humble means recognizing we are not on earth to see how important we can become, 
    but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."

    - Gordon B. Hinckley


  • 4.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-18-2016 22:18
    Hi Sue,

    The second part of your question could potentially go in a number of directions depending on how you want to define effectiveness (motivating employees, mentoring, communicating, etc.).

    There are a number of measures in McDonald and Westphal's (2011) AMJ including the following overall effectiveness measure:

    CEO's Effectiveness as Corporate Leader
    1. [Over the past year] to what extent has the CEO been an effective leader?
    2. How would you assess the quality of the CEO's leadership [over the past 12 months]? [inadequate . . . adequate . . . more than adequate]
    3. [Over the past 12 months] The CEO has been an effective leader of [the firm]. [agree/disagree]
    4. The CEO has done an exemplary job leading [the company] [over the past year]. [agree/disagree]

    James Shaw and his colleagues also published a study (2011 LQ) with a number of very interesting measures of destructive leadership. If you look at the measures/items - they are essentially a lack of effectiveness in a number of different areas. So, depending on what aspect of effectiveness you want to tap into, one of their sub-scales might be a good option?

    Cheers,

    Jeremy

    On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Susan Ashford <sja@umich.edu> wrote:

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 


    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     







  • 5.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-19-2016 13:03

    Hi Sue,

     

    You can check out the following managerial resourcefulness scale:

     

    Kanungo, R. N. & Menon, S. T. (2005).  Managerial Resourcefulness: Measuring a Critical Component of Leadership Effectiveness.  Journal of Entrepreneurship, 14(1): 39-55.

     

    It has four sub-scales – Goal Directed Problem Orientation, Proactive Analytical Orientation, Problem Focused Perseverance, and Emotional Equanimity.

     

    It can be used as measure of leadership potential as well with minor modifications.

     

    Regards,

     

    Sanjay

     

    Sanjay T. Menon, Ph. D.

    Dean of Graduate Studies

    Director of India Studies

    Louisiana State University Shreveport

    Office: (318) 797-5247     Fax:     (318) 798-4120

     

    One University Place

    Shreveport, Louisiana 71115

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Ashford
    Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 2:04 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

     

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 

     

    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     

     

     

     



  • 6.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-25-2016 08:52
    Susan

    The best tool I know that has been validated academically as well as in practice (doesn't everyone say this) is one not so many know about especially here.

    It is the Chally Assessment Tool. You can find more information here at their website www.chally.com. Unique in their methodology is a focus on potential, and application of actuarial science methods to identify and qualify the outcomes of factors that predict rather than simply describe potential.

    For example, they identify that potential leaders need to be good at certain quite specific work skills including taking initiative in a business unit and decision-making. It is these skills that differentiate great leaders from the rest. And so personality, EQ/EI do not figure in this methodology as relevant to identifying leadership potential. Skills like presentation or attributes like extraversion don't matter either. The issue from their perspective is being clear about what specifically separates great leaders from others. And given their research is build around the laws of large numbers their database of more than 300,000 is admirable across cultures too.

    I encourage you to examine their method, and their tool for its unique perspective and results.

    Best regards
    Dr John Read

    On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Susan Ashford <sja@umich.edu> wrote:

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 


    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     







  • 7.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-25-2016 18:24

    Susan:

    I am not aware of measures of leadership potential but I do want to refer you to an assessment approach for measuring leadership effectiveness. The method is SYMLOG (an acronym for Systematic Multiple Level Observation of Groups) (www.symlog.org) which has a built-in research norm for effectiveness based on over 1 million observations.  The method was developed years ago at Harvard by Robert Bales and its evolution and development continues today through the SYMLOG Consulting Group based in San Diego, CA.  The CCL compared SYMLOG to a number of other assessments years ago and found it to be more rigorously developed and useful compared to the other assessments examined.

     

    Dave Ford

     

    David L. Ford, Jr., Ph.D., Professor

    Organizations, Strategy, & International Management

    Naveen Jindal School of Management

    The University of Texas at Dallas

    800 West Campbell Road,  MS SM43

    Richardson, TX  75083-0688

    972/883-2015   972/883-6521 (fax)

    mzad@utdallas.edu

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of John M. Read
    Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 7:52 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

     

    Susan

     

    The best tool I know that has been validated academically as well as in practice (doesn't everyone say this) is one not so many know about especially here.

     

    It is the Chally Assessment Tool. You can find more information here at their website www.chally.com. Unique in their methodology is a focus on potential, and application of actuarial science methods to identify and qualify the outcomes of factors that predict rather than simply describe potential.

     

    For example, they identify that potential leaders need to be good at certain quite specific work skills including taking initiative in a business unit and decision-making. It is these skills that differentiate great leaders from the rest. And so personality, EQ/EI do not figure in this methodology as relevant to identifying leadership potential. Skills like presentation or attributes like extraversion don't matter either. The issue from their perspective is being clear about what specifically separates great leaders from others. And given their research is build around the laws of large numbers their database of more than 300,000 is admirable across cultures too.

     

    I encourage you to examine their method, and their tool for its unique perspective and results.

     

    Best regards

    Dr John Read

     

    On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Susan Ashford <sja@umich.edu> wrote:

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 

     

    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford

     

     

     

     

     



  • 8.  Measures of leadership potential and effectiveness

    Posted 08-26-2016 09:22
    All,

    At the Macro level, a few of you might find my Leadership Readiness (to transform an organization) Survey (one page) interesting for some purposes. It is derived from Robert H. Miles, "Accelerating Corporate Transformations-Don't Lose Your Nerve!" Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 2010.

    I have used both of these tools to jump start the dialogue about launching their corporate transformations among the CEO and members of the Senior Leadership Team, as well as to gauge downstream progress. Has high face validity with organizational members at all levels and helps highlight where more focus and effort is need by leaders to accelerate the corporate transformation.

    I have attached the one-page instrument along with comparative benchmarks across a variety of industries, which tend to strongly support the importance that leaders attach to engaging and overcoming each of these transformation "Inhibitors," as part of their transformation game plan.

    For my latest update on the subject of leading corporate transformations, please refer to Robert H. Miles and Michael T. Kanazawa, BIG Ideas to BIG Results: Leading Corporate Transformation in a Disruptive World (Pearson, 2016).

    Good luck.

    Bob



    Robert H. Miles, Ph.D.
    President
    Corporate Transformation Resources, LLC
    Tel: 404-805-1705
    Personal Email: RMiles@CorpTransform.com
    Web Site: www.CorpTransform.com

    On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:52 AM, John M. Read <johnread.sg@gmail.com> wrote:
    Susan

    The best tool I know that has been validated academically as well as in practice (doesn't everyone say this) is one not so many know about especially here.

    It is the Chally Assessment Tool. You can find more information here at their website www.chally.com. Unique in their methodology is a focus on potential, and application of actuarial science methods to identify and qualify the outcomes of factors that predict rather than simply describe potential.

    For example, they identify that potential leaders need to be good at certain quite specific work skills including taking initiative in a business unit and decision-making. It is these skills that differentiate great leaders from the rest. And so personality, EQ/EI do not figure in this methodology as relevant to identifying leadership potential. Skills like presentation or attributes like extraversion don't matter either. The issue from their perspective is being clear about what specifically separates great leaders from others. And given their research is build around the laws of large numbers their database of more than 300,000 is admirable across cultures too.

    I encourage you to examine their method, and their tool for its unique perspective and results.

    Best regards
    Dr John Read

    On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Susan Ashford <sja@umich.edu> wrote:

    Hi folks,

    I am turning to the listserv once again for measurement help. I'm hoping to measure two things. The first is leadership potential. I would like to measure a supervisor's assessment of whether one or more of his or her direct reports has the potential to develop into a leader. Does such a scale exists? Second, I'd like to measure the effectiveness of a person's leadership. There seem to be a lot of different measures of leadership (its emergence and leadership behaviors of various forms). Is there a measure of the perceived effectiveness of a person's leadership contribution? That is, whether the leadership behaviors that the person engaged in were effective in this particular setting or with this particular group. 


    I'd appreciate any help anyone could give me and I'm happy to summarize responses back to the group.

    Thanks in advance,

    Sue Ashford