Escala de Liderança Ética no Trabalho: Evidências de validade da versão brasileira

Abstract

bResumo O tema da ética nas organizações tem ganhado relevo recentemente. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar a adaptação da Escala de Liderança Ética no Trabalho (Kalshoven, Den Hartog, & De Hoogh, 2011). O primeiro estudo apresenta escala traduzida e o teste exploratório da estrutura fatorial com uma amostra de 222 profissionais. Apesar de apresentar 7 fatores (AFE), a estrutura encontrada não correspondente ao modelo original. No estudo 2 (amostra de 3804 profissionais), o ajuste do modelo com estrutura fatorial original da escala foi testado (AFC) e apresentou melhor ajuste que os demais. Para mensurar a validade de construto, a relação da liderança ética com a satisfação com o líder e a supervisão abusiva foi testada. O padrão de relação esperado foi confirmado, sendo encontrada relação positiva com satisfação e negativa com supervisão abusiva. Juntos, os resultados sugerem que a ELET apresenta evidências de validade de construto e boas propriedades psicométricas. Ethical Leadership at Work Scale: validity evidence for the Brazilian version AbstractEthical 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. Escala de liderazgo ético en el trabajo: evidencias de validez de la versión brasileñaResumen El tema de la ética en las organizaciones ha ganado recientemente relevancia. El objetivo de ese trabajo fue realizar la adaptación de la Escala de Liderazgo Ético en el Trabajo (Kalshoven, Den Hartog, & De Hoogh, 2011). El primer estudio presenta el test exploratorio de la estructura factorial a partir de una muestra de 222 profesionales. A pesar de presentar 7 factores (AFE), la estructura hallada no corresponde al modelo original. En el estudio 2 (muestra de 3804 profesionales), el ajuste del modelo con la estructura factorial original de la escala fue probado (AFC) y presentó un mejor ajuste en comparación con otros modelos probados. Para medir la validez de constructo, la relación del liderazgo ético con la satisfacción con el líder y la supervisión abusiva fueron probadas. El patrón de relación esperado fue confirmado al encontrarse relación positiva con respecto a la satisfac...

The influence of abusive supervision on employee engagement, stress and turnover intention

“…They also show that work engagement mediates the influence of abusive supervision on turnover intention. Therefore, if organizations are to minimize the risks of losing employees, they should invest in actions to select and train leaders, as well as in promoting an environment that strengthens values such as collaboration, consistency, transparency, respect and ethics (Almeida & Porto, 2019; Erickson et al. , 2015).…”

“…In the Brazilian context, however, studies focusing on this aspect of the supervisory relationship are still scarce, despite its potentially harmful consequences for organizations and especially for the subordinates themselves. A review of national literature [1] has shown only five empirical studies (Abelha, Cavazotte, Niemeyer & Villas Boas, 2020; Almeida, 2018; Almeida & Porto, 2019; Andrade, Aragão do Rosário, Moreira & Reis Neto, 2019; Ceribeli, Fernandes & Saraiva, 2021) in addition to a review of the international literature.…”

Harmful Leader Behaviors: Toward an Increased Understanding of How Different Forms of Unethical Leader Behavior Can Harm Subordinates

“…We administered the newly developed 37-item HLB questionnaire (see Table 4 for the items) to 218 employees (see Table 3 for sample details). Ethical leadership was assessed with 29 items from the Brazilian version (Almeida et al, 2018 ) of the Ethical Leadership at Work (ELW) scale (Kalshoven et al, 2011 ). An overall ethical leadership score was used.…”

Ethical Climate Index: Evidence of Validity of the Brazilian Version

“…All items were evaluated using a Likert scale of 5 points, ranging from 1 (totally disagree) to 5 (totally agree). • Leadership: ethical leadership was evaluated using the 29-item Brazilian version of the Workplace Ethical and Leadership scale (Almeida, den Hartog, & Porto, 2018) proposed by Kalshoven et al (2011). This scale is composed of seven factors: People Orientation, Power Sharing, Fairness, Role Clarification, Integrity, Concern for Sustainability, and Ethical guidance.…”

“…The 20-item Abusive Leadership scale (Almeida, Den Hartog, & Porto, 2018) was used to measure abusive leadership behaviors. The scale used in this study measures four factors: Intimidation, Excessive pressure for results, Lack of care, and Self-centeredness.…”