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Title: Development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora (LEAD) scale
Authors: Michaud, James
Bagire, Vincent
Melyoki, Lemayon
Lvina, Elena
Puplampu, Bill
Woodham, Omar
Galperin, Bella L
Ford Jr., David L
Knight, Nicole S
Corbin, Akentoolove
Lituchy, Terri R
Punnett, Betty Jane
Acquaah, Moses
Charles, Reccia
Taleb, Ali
Mukanzi, Clive
Senaji, Thomas
Metwally, Elham
Asiedu-Appiah, Felicity
Agyapong, Ahmed
Singh, Riann
Ballwant, Paul
Stephanson, Jacqueline
Williams, Lynette
Alleyne, Alethea
Keywords: Africa
African diaspora
Caribbean
Canada
Factor analyses
Leadership
Leadership effectiveness
LEAD project
Scale development
United States
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
Citation: Michaud, J., Lvina, E., Galperin, B. L., Lituchy, T. R., Punnett, B. J., Taleb, A., ... & Alleyne, A. (2020). Development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora (LEAD) scale. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 20(3), 361-384.
Abstract: This article contributes to the literature on cross-cultural leadership by describing the development and validation of the Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the Diaspora (LEAD) Scale. The LEAD Scale is a culturally sensitive measure of leadership effectiveness in the understudied settings of Africa and the African diaspora. A combination of methods and four studies using samples from Africa and the African diaspora based in Canada, the USA, and the Caribbean were used to develop the measure. Using the grounded theory approach and the Delphi technique (n ¼ 192), followed by a set of increasingly rigorous tests including exploratory factor analysis (n ¼ 441), confirmatory factor analysis (n ¼ 116), and a test of measure invariance (n ¼1384), we developed and validated a culturally sensitive measure of effective leadership. Our results demonstrate that spirituality, tradition and community-centredness are important and culturally specific components of leadership in Africa and the African diaspora. This paper provides a validated measure of leadership and offers recommendations regarding the use of the measure by managers and researchers working in Africa or with African diaspora.
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