The MLQ was constructed by Bruce J. Avolio and Bernard M. Bass with the goal to assess a full range of leadership styles. [2][3] The MLQ is composed of 9 scales that measure three leadership styles: transformational leadership (5 scales), transactional leadership (2 scales), and passive/avoidant behavior (2 scales), and 3 scales that measure ...
The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire™ (MLQ—also known as MLQ 5X short or the standard MLQ) measures a broad range of leadership types from passive leaders, to leaders who give contingent rewards to followers, to leaders who transform their followers into becoming leaders themselves.
The shorter questionnaire, MLQ (5X short), contains 45 items that identify and measure key leadership and effectiveness behaviors shown in prior research to be strongly linked with both individual and organizational success.
Although the most used measure of transformational leadership, the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), has been the subject of intense scrutiny among leadership scholars, little interest has been shown in analyzing the relationship between ...
The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and its condensed version, the MLQ 5X, are intended to help individuals assess their leadership style. The instruments examine different approaches to leadership, from “ from passive leaders, to leaders who give contingent rewards to followers, to leaders who transform their followers into ...
It allows individuals to measure how they perceive themselves with regard to specific leadership behaviors (using the Leader/Self form), but the heart of the MLQ comes in the rater/other feedback that is enabled with the Rater form. The MLQ was designed with the 360-degree feedback method.
The purpose of this article was to explore the psychometric properties of the MLQ and to develop from the existing MLQ items theoretically valid and internally consistent subscales based on the premise that Multifactor Leadership Theory holds promise as a theory of leadership.