Revista Psicologia Organizações e Trabalho
On-line version ISSN 1984-6657
Abstract
ALMEIDA, Juliana; HARTOG, Deanne den and PORTO, Juliana Barreiros. Ethical leadership at work scale: validity evidence for the brazilian version. Rev. Psicol., Organ. Trab. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.3, pp.430-440. ISSN 1984-6657. https://doi.org/10.17652/rpot/2018.3.14298.
Ethical issues have been a growing concern to organizations. The main goal of this study was to develop a Brazilian version of the Ethical Leadership at Work Scale (Kalshoven, Den Hartog, & De Hoogh, 2011). The first study presents the translated measure and an exploratory study of the factor structure with a sample of 222 employees. Even though the best solution had 7 factors (EFA), the solution found did not correspond to the originally proposed one. In study 2 (sample of 3,804 employees), the goodness of fit of the original factor structure was assessed (CFA). The originally proposed model presented the best fit. In order to assess construct validity, the relationship of ethical leadership with satisfaction with the leader and abusive supervision was measured. Findings confirmed the hypothesized positive relation with satisfaction with the leader and a negative one with abusive supervision. Overall, findings suggest the scale presents good psychometric properties and construct validity.
Keywords : ethical leadership; abusive supervision; satisfaction with the leader.